import directory error

[Olivier Noblanc ATOUSOFT]

Problem solved thanks a lot


"Steve Holden" <steve at holdenweb.com> a écrit dans le message de news: 
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> Olivier Noblanc ATOUSOFT wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> When i want to import a .py fire from another subdirectory i make
>>
>> import inc/setupxml
>>
>>
>> but that make me an error message.
>>
>> A man tell me to put a dot but that doesn't work.
>>
>> Can you help me ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
> If you want to import a single .py (a Python module) then the ONLY way to 
> achieve that is to make sure it appears in a directory that is a member of 
> the sys.path list. (This is a slight simplification, but it will do as 
> long as you are only importing from the file store).
>
> There are various ways to affect the contents of sys.path, the best known 
> of which include
>
>    1. Setting the PYTHONPATH environment variable
>    2. Creating *.pth files
>    3. Altering sys.path inside site-customize.py in
>       your standard library
>
> Python does allow you to implement PACKAGES, which are directories 
> containing
>
>    a) a file called __init__.py and (optionally)
>    b) other modules (.py files) and packages (directories
>       containing __init__.py files).
>
> The Python interpreter looks for packages in all the same places it looks 
> for modules, but it imports packages by running the __init__.py file (as 
> usual, this happens on the *first* time the package is imported).
>
> So, for example, under Cygwin or Linux/Unix, I can define a package (with 
> no Python in it, but still obeying the rules) as follows:
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ mkdir mp1
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ touch mp1/__init__.py
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ touch mp1/rhubarb.py
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ mkdir mp1/p2
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ touch mp1/p2/__init__.py
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ python
> Python 2.4 (#1, Dec  4 2004, 20:10:33)
> [GCC 3.3.3 (cygwin special)] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import sys
>  >>> "" in sys.path
> True
>  >>> import mp1
>  >>> import mp1.rhubarb
>  >>> import mp1.p2
>  >>>
>
> sholden at dellboy ~
> $ find mp1
> mp1
> mp1/p2
> mp1/p2/__init__.py
> mp1/p2/__init__.pyc
> mp1/rhubarb.py
> mp1/rhubarb.pyc
> mp1/__init__.py
> mp1/__init__.pyc
>
> In this case mp1.rhubarb is a module from the mp1 package, mp1.p2 is a 
> sub-package of mp1. You can see what's been compiled by the interpreter on 
> import and when by looking at the .pyc files.
>
> Does this help any?
>
> regards
>  Steve
> -- 
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