run all scripts in sub-directory as subroutines?
Dave Angel
davea at ieee.org
Sat Nov 14 10:36:21 EST 2009
Tobiah wrote:
>> This works fine, but in the sub-modules the sys.path appropriately
>> returns the same as from the parent, I want them to know their own file
>> names. How?? I can pass it to them, but wondered if there is a more
>> self-sufficient way for a module to know from where it was invoked.
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> I like the idea of passing the information to the module.
> Probably by setting a global variable into it.
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As ryles pointed out in this thread, over a month ago, that's already
there. The system loader creates a global variable __file__ with the
full path to the module. So any module can see exactly where it was
loaded from.
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