[Tutor] import'ing problems (path) P.S.!!

[Tim Johnson]

* Kent Johnson <kent_johnson at skillsoft.com> [041005 10:51]:
> It looks like WebKit doesn't want to see the Webware level in the package 
> hierarchy. You could take everything out of the Webware directory and put 
> it directly in site-packages or add the Webware directory to sys.path as I 
> described before. Then try import WebKit.Page (without the WebWare prefix).
 
  Okay! add the following line:
  sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Webware')
  and the import is successful.

  This is an excercise in understanding the python import protocol,
  and I would welcome References to documentation of the topic so
  that I may better understand it.
 
  Thanks for the support Kent.
  tj

> You might have better luck with this on the Webware mailing list.
> 
> Kent
> 
> At 10:29 AM 10/5/2004 -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >* Kent Johnson <kent_johnson at skillsoft.com> [041005 05:10]:
> >> Tim,
> >>
> >  Hi Kent:
> >> Did you run the WebWare installer or just unpack the distribution file?
> >
> >  I ran the Webware installer, it did not appear to copy files
> >  elsewhere.
> >> Usually third-party libraries are installed in Python/lib/site-packages.
> >
> >  So... I reinstalled, by unpacking to
> >  /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Webware,
> >  then ran the webware installer again, said installation was
> >  successful.
> >
> >  Now, Page.pyc is at
> >  /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Webware/WebKit
> >  Now, if I code:
> >  import Webware.WebKit ## and stop the program here, there is no
> >                        ## ImportError exception thrown
> >  If I code
> >  import Webware.WebKit.Page
> >  ## I get the ImportError: "No module named MiscUtils"
> >  MiscUtils is a directory at the same level ast WebKit.
> >
> >  Not sure where to go from here.......
> >  whew!
> >  tim
> >
> >> This directory is automatically added to sys.path.
> >>
> >> Alternatively you can make a permanent, global modification to sys.path 
> >by
> >> creating a file
> >> Python/lib/site-packages/sitecustomize.py
> >> containing the two lines
> >> import sys
> >> sys.path.append('/home/tim/downloads/python/Webware-0.8.1')
> >
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