findResource ( resource_name )

Return the location of the given resource.

It's convenient to store associated resource files (such as text files, or image files) within the Python package that uses them. This function will search the Python module path for these files, and return the absolute location of the file within the file system.

For example, suppose the package SomePackage contains a module, SomeModule.py, and an associated resource, SomeModule.txt. Then findResource("SomePackage/SomeModule.txt") will return the absolute path to the resource, which will look something like this: /usr/local/lib/python/site-packages/SomePackage/SomeModule.txt