How to simulate packages?

[Daniel]

On Aug 21, 2:22 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> 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.

Good suggestion.  Thank you.