determine where python is running from in linux

Question

I normally work in python on Windows and I use the dos command where python to make sure that I am using the virtual environments version of python. What is the equivalent command in the linux shell?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use which python.

• which man page

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$ which python
/usr/bin/python

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C:\Users\anossovp>where python
c:\Python27\python.exe

Answer 2

The thing you are usually looking for is not where Python itself is, but where it's libraries are. For that I would recommend this:

(from within the Python shell)

import sys
import pprint
pprint.pprint(sys.path)

Outside of that you can still do which python naturally.