[Tutor] A simple question

[SA]

On 8/13/02 2:46 AM, "Thomi Richards" <thomi@thomi.imail.net.nz> wrote:
I may be wrong on this. But it seems like when I was reading "Learning
Python", there was a section on setting up python with a shell script. And I
remember one of the directories it said Python looks into is '.'. So I ran
this quick script:
Import sys
for i in range(len(sys.path):
    sys.path[I]

I got the correct libraries where python modules are stored, including ''.
So I'm thinking and I can be wrong here, '' is left empty so that Python can
load the current directory dynamically. Of course, I'm probably way off base
here.

Anyone else?

Thanks.
SA


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> 
> 
> well, when python looks for modules to import, it scans through all the
> directories in the sys.path string.... more than that i cannot tell
> you...
> 
> :-)
> 
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:33:53 +0200 (MEST) Thus said lumbricus@gmx.net:
> 
>> Hi!
>>  
>>> this is the way i do it:
>>> 
>>> -----<SNIP>------
>>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>> 
>>> #above line needed in unix like environs only!
>>> 
>>> import sys
>>> 
>>> sys.path[0] = '/home/thomi/custom_python_modules/'
>>> 
>>> #set the above path to the dir where all my custom modules are
>>> 
>>> import thomimodule1
>>> 
>>> ------<SNIP>-----
>>> 
>>> this does work, ive tried it myself before... sys.path[0] is free,
>>> and
>> 
>> Yes:
>>>>> sys.path[0]
>> ''
>>>>> 
>> But _why_?
>> Has anybody an explanation?
>> 
>>> can be used safely, otherwise you'd have to go:
>>> 
>>> sys.path.append('/home/thomi/custom_python_modules')
>>> 
>>> hope that helps..
>>  
>> [ TOFU snipped ]
>> 
>> puzzled greetings,
>> J"o!
>> 
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