Importing a module from a non-cwd

[John Gordon]

In <4ea5c1da$0$3708$426a74cc at news.free.fr> candide <candide at free.invalid> writes:

> For instance, suppose I have a file, say my_file.py, located in the cwd, 
> say /home/candide/ and suppose the module to be imported, say 
> my_module.py, is located in the /home/candide/foo/ directory.

> How my_file.py can import the my_module.py module ?

If PYTHONPATH and/or sys.path contain /home/candide/foo/, then you should
be able to:

  import my_module

Or, if foo/ is a real module (i.e. it contains an __init__.py file), this
should work:

  import foo.my_module

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