[Tutor] Question about importing

[Dave Angel]

Eike Welk wrote:
> On Tuesday February 2 2010 20:28:03 Grigor Kolev wrote:
>   
>> Can I use something like this
>> #--------------------------------------------------
>> import sys
>> sys.path.append("/home/user/other")
>> import module
>> #-------------------------------------------------
>>
>>     
>
> Yes I think so. I just tried something similar:
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>
> IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
>
> <------- snip -------->
>
> In [1]: import sys
>
> In [2]: 
> sys.path.append("/home/eike/codedir/freeode/trunk/freeode_py/freeode/")
>
> <------- snip -------->
> <------- The next line is a special command of IPython: ---------------->
>
> In [8]: !ls /home/eike/codedir/freeode/trunk/freeode_py/freeode/
> ast.py           pygenerator.pyc        test_1_interpreter.pyc                   
>                                         test_pygenerator.pyc
> ast.pyc          simlcompiler.py        test_2_interpreter.py          
>                                         test_simlcompiler.py
> __init__.py      simlcompiler.pyc       test_2_interpreter.pyc         
>                                         
> <------- snip -------->
>
>
> In [9]: import simlcompiler
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
>
> /home/eike/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> /home/eike/codedir/freeode/trunk/freeode_py/freeode/simlcompiler.py in 
> <module>()
>      36 import stat
>      37 from subprocess import Popen #, PIPE, STDOUT
> ---> 38 import pyparsing
>      39 import freeode.simlparser as simlparser
>      40 import freeode.interpreter as interpreter
>
> ImportError: No module named pyparsing
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Well... the import fails, but it finds the module and starts to import it. 
>
>
> HTH,
> Eike.
>
>
>
>   
I have no idea what freode looks like, but I have a guess, based on your 
error messages.

I'd guess that you want to append without the freeode directory:
 

     sys.path.append("/home/eike/codedir/freeode/trunk/freeode_py/")

and import with it.  That's because freeode is a package name, not a 
directory name (I can tell because __init__.py is present)
          import freeode.simlcompiler

See if that works any better.

DaveA