[Tutor] importing path question

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sun Aug 10 19:56:42 CEST 2008


On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 6:03 PM, dave selby <dave6502 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a main directory 'kmotion2' where python scripts live. They
> access a library of scripts in 'kmotion2/core'  as 'kmotion2/core' has
> a __init__.py file. However I now need to create a new directory
> 'utilities' inside 'kmotion2' that also needs to access scripts in
> 'core'
>
> kmotion2 directory
> |                   |
> core         utilities
>
> So I need to import up the tree then back down. Is this possible ?

Yes, assuming kmotion2 is in your Python path (which it should be to
allow importing from core at all) you can just
  import core.whatever
as usual.

Kent


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