Importing from Another Path

[Paul Sidorsky]

Ype Kingma wrote:

> > sys.path.append("..\\common")
> That is almost as portable as it gets: when also you take
> the common directory from the command line sys.argv, eg:
> 
>   sys.path.append(sys.argv[1])
> 
> I wouldn't know of a more portable way.
> The non portable part is then moved into the script(s) that
> start(s) the client and the server.

Actually I just meant that it wasn't portable between Windows and Linux
because I'm using backslashes in the path.

It looks like I'll have to just clean it up to use os.path.join() to
take care of that and live with it the way I've got it.  This is not the
answer I was hoping to hear, but at least it's an answer.  Thanks!

> Also you should be aware that the sys module (any imported module
> in fact) is unique in the process that runs the python interpreter,
> so you should not add the common directory when it is already there:
> 
>   if sys.argv[1] not in sys.path: sys.path.append(sys.argv[1])

Ah, good point.

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