Module organization

[bruno modulix]

Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote:
> I am slowly learning Python and I'm already starting to write some minor
> modules for myself. Undoubtedly there are better modules available
> either built-in or 3rd party that do the same as mine and much more but
> I need to learn it one way or another anyway.
> 
> What I'm wondering about is module organization.
> 
> I created my own directory for storing my modules and added the full
> path to this to PYTHONPATH (Windows XP platform).
> 
> This means that "import modulename" works for my modules now.
> 
> However, the name of my module is "db" or "database", a module name that
> will likely conflict with other modules I might encounter later.
> 
> As such, I was thinking of doing the same that the "distutils" set of
> modules have done, by creating a subdirectory and storing them there, so
> I created a "lvk" directory in that directory of mine and moved the
> module in there, but now "import lvk.modulename" doesn't find the module.

What you want is a package:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node8.html#SECTION008400000000000000000

> Is there a trick to this? Do I have to store my own modules beneath
> C:\Python24\Lib? or can I use the organization I've tried just with some
> minor fixes to make python locate my modules?

briefly put, add an (even empty) __init__.py file in your lvk directory,
and it should work fine (minus potential import problems in your
modules, but that should be easy to fix...)

HTH
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bruno desthuilliers
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