On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

In numpytest.py, set_package_path is provided for handling path changes while doing unit tests. It reads

def set_package_path(level=1): """ Prepend package directory to sys.path.

set_package_path should be called from a test_file.py that satisfies the following tree structure:

<somepath>/<somedir>/test_file.py

Then the first existing path name from the following list

<somepath>/build/lib.<platform>-<version> <somepath>/..

is prepended to sys.path. ...

However, the line that supposedly calculates "somepath/.." is

d = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(testfile)))

which calculates "somepath". Which is wrong: the docstring, the code or my interpretation?

You have to read also following code: d1 = os.path.join(d,'build','lib.%s-%s'%(get_platform(),sys.version[:3])) if not os.path.isdir(d1): d1 = os.path.dirname(d) # <- here we get "somepath/.." sys.path.insert(0,d1) Pearu