Finding modules in subdirectories of sys.path

[Maan M. Hamze]

Norm
Exactly!  It all depended on how it got installed :)  Please note that in
cases like these, a subdirectory is really refered to as a Sub Package of
the Scientific package.  So you import first the sub package you want to
use.  Please note for your future reference those __init__.py files in a
package or a sub package that make that possible.
Maan

"Norm Wood" <norm at wombat.atmos.colostate.edu> wrote in message
news:3b844e00 at news.ColoState.EDU...
> Maan,
>
> Thanks - after trying a few more things along the lines of your
> suggestion, I think I see how it works.
>
> If sys.path is '/home/me/lib/python2.0', then "import Physics"
> doesn't work, but "import Scientific.Physics" does.
>
> If sys.path is '/home/me/lib/python2.0/Scientific', then
> "import Physics" works.
>
> Regards,
> Norm
>
> Maan M. Hamze <mmhamze at pleiades.net> wrote:
> > Norm
> > I have not used these packages and I do not know how they install.  But
from
> > my experience in Windows - if you install packages, you should be able
to
> > use modules by importing packages.  so if you have these directories in
> > sys.path, did you try:
> > import Physics
> > for example and see what happens?  Provided you have __init__.py in that
> > subdirectory it should find it.  Then you can use modules from this
package.
> > Maan
> >
> > "Norm Wood" <norm at wombat.atmos.colostate.edu> wrote in message
> > news:3b841921 at news.ColoState.EDU...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've installed the NumPy extensions and Scientific Python package into
> >> subdirectories of my home directory:
> >>
> >> /home/me/lib/python2.0/Numeric
> >> /home/me/lib/python2.0/Scientific
> >>
> >>
> >> The Scientific directory contains a number of subdirectories (Physics,
> >> Statistics, etc.).  It appears that, in order to import modules from
> >> these subdirectories, each subdirectory has to be listed explicitly
> >> in sys.path.  Otherwise, I get an import error.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to cause python to search recursively through the
> >> directories rooted at /home/me/lib/python2.0?  Or is it possible
> >> to place some sort of index in /home/me/lib/python2.0 so that python
> >> can locate the modules within the subdirectories without explicitly
> >> listing each subdirectory in sys.path?