How to simulate packages?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Daniel a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I have a project that I've decided to split into packages in order to
> organize my code better.  So what I have looks something like this
> 
> src
>   -module1
>     -mod1_file.py
>   -module2
>     -mod2_file.py
> 
> Everytime I run mod2_file.py I need to import mod1_file.py.  Right now
> I'm using an ugly little thing to do my import (see below).  Isn't
> there some python mechanism to handle packages?

cf Gabriel's answer wrt/ Python's packages.


> import os, sys
> # add packages to path then finish importing
> for dir in ['module1','module2']:
>     # how about this ugly thing to find adjacent directories for
> imports
>     sys.path.append('\\'.join(os.path.dirname(__file__).split('\\')
> [:len(os.path.dirname(__file__).split('\\'))-1]) + "\\" + dir)
> 
> Any and all suggestions appreciated.  Thanks in advance.


A suggestion: os.path is about os independance when it comes to 
filesystem. Please read the whole doc for this module, and learn how to 
avoid writing system dependant code.