I have recently installed the FiPy package onto my Macbook, with all the dependencies, through MacPorts. I have no troubles calling FiPy and NumPy as packages in Python. 
Now that I have it working I want to go through the examples. However, I cannot find the "base directory" or FiPy Directory in my computer. 
How can I find the base directory? 
Do I even have the base directory if I have installed all this via Macports?
As a note I am using Python27.
Please, help! Thanks.
Since I had the same issue with Ubuntu I post this here.
If you have installed it using miniconda or anaconda, it will be:
/home/username/miniconda<version>/envs/<name of the environemnt you installed fipy in>
if you get the error that fipy module not found, you dont need to export the path but you just need to:
conda activate <nameOfEnvironment you installed fipy there>
Where is the FiPy "base directory"?