[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie file path question

[Richard Gordon]

At 3:21 PM -0500 7/15/01, Scott Griffitts wrote:
>How do I import a .py file outside of the Python directory?
>
>for example, if I want to import test1.py from the following path:
>
>HD:folder1:folder2:folder3:test.py
>
>how do I word the file path between import and test.py?

Aside from Just's suggestion that you edit your preferences to 
include the desired path, you could temporarily append it to sys.path 
as follows:

import sys
sys.path.append('HD:folder1:folder2:folder3')
import test1

Note that a trailing ":" is not necessary if you are going to do it 
this way and you do not include the .py extension in an import 
statement in any case.


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