[Python-Dev] Setting project home path the best way

[Christian Tismer]

Hi Kristjan,

does that mean that your scheme simply works, without any config step
necessary after I did my checkout?
This would in fact be an interesting alternative to 

    Python setup.py develop

but I'm not sure if this is the same scheme on windows and Os X. 

Getting this part right was rather tricky, and I fear this is still an issue. 

Right now I think to just force my users to run the install step, since it is quite
accepted in general. 

Still, I'd love to see a way with no action needed at all: write yout your structure,
and it works as-is. Seems to be impossible without tricks. 

Cheers - chris

Sent from my Ei4Steve

On Nov 15, 2012, at 10:17, Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> wrote:

> When python is being run from a compile environment, it detects this by looking for "Lib" folders in directories above the one containing the executable. 
> (I always thought that this "special" execution mode, hardwired in, was a bit odd, and suggested that this could be made a function of pep405)
> Anyway, keeping your executable as part of the tree is the trick I use, and to make things nice I put  right next to it:
> site.py
> sitecustomize.py
> 
> sitecustomize.py is where you would put the logic to set sys.path by walking up the hierarchy and finding the proper root.
> site.py is there to merely import sitecustomize.py, in case a site.py is not found in all the default places python looks.
> 
> K
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-
>> bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Christian Tismer
>> Sent: 11. nóvember 2012 20:31
>> To: python-dev at python.org
>> Subject: [Python-Dev] Setting project home path the best way
>> 
>> Hi friends,
>> 
>> I have a project that has its root somewhere on my machine.
>> This project has many folders and contains quite some modules.
>> 
>> There is a common root of the module tree, and I want to use
>> - either absolute imports
>> - relative imports with '.'
>> 
>> Problem:
>> 
>> - I want to run any module inside the heirarchy from the command-line
>> 
>> - this should work, regardless what my 'cwd' is
>> 
>> - this should work with or without virtualenv.
>> 
>> So far, things work fine with virtualenv, because sys.executable is in the
>> project module tree.
>> 
>> Without virtualenv, this is not so. But I hate to make settings like
>> PYTHONPATH, because these are not permanent. .
>> 
>> Question:
>> 
>> How should I define my project root dir in a unique way, without setting an
>> environment variable?
>> What is the lest intrusive way to spell that?
>> 
>> Reason:
>> 
>> I'd like to make things work correctly and unambigously when I call a script
>> inside the module heirarchy. Things are not fixed: there exist many
>> checkouts In the file system, and each should know where to search its
>> home/root in the tree.
>> 
>> Is this elegantly possible to deduce from the actually executed script file?
>> 
>> Cheers - chris
>> 
>> Sent from my Ei4Steve
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