Get name of current script in Python

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4152963/get-name-of-current-script-in-python

Accepted answer links:
[__file__]: https://docs.python.org/reference/import.html#__file__

Answer 3 links:
[official documentation]: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#index-43
[From ]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html#other-language-changes
[issue 18416]: https://bugs.python.org/issue18416
[main module]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/__main__.html#module-__main__
[From ]: https://docs.python.org/3.9/whatsnew/3.9.html#other-language-changes
[issue 20443]: https://bugs.python.org/issue20443
[official documentation]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.argv
[another answer to this question]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4152992/3903832
[py2exe]: http://www.py2exe.org/
[PyInstaller]: http://www.pyinstaller.org/
[inspect]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html
[another answer to this question]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/47120068/3903832
[inspect.currentframe()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#inspect.currentframe
[inspect.getfile(...)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#inspect.getfile
[inspect.getsourcefile(...)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#inspect.getsourcefile
[raises a TypeError exception]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/python-in-a/0596001886/re726.html
[this answer to another question]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6761378/3903832
[another answer to this question]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62119753/3903832
[lib_programname]: https://github.com/bitranox/lib_programname
[pytest]: https://docs.pytest.org/
[pydoc]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html
[os.path.abspath(...)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.abspath
[os.path.realpath(...)]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.realpath
[os.chdir(...)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.chdir
[os.path.basename(...)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.basename
[os.path.splitext(...)]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.splitext
[Python 3.4]: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.4.html#whatsnew-pathlib
[PEP 428]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0428
[PurePath]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.PurePath
[pathlib]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html
[pathlib.PurePath(...).name]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.PurePath.name
[pathlib.PurePath(...).stem]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.PurePath.stem

Answer 4 links:
[__main__]: http://docs.python.org/3/library/__main__.html

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