Import no longer works in Python 2.3.x

[Matt Whiteley]

Hmmm, that messes up all my imports from all over my code and it's all
worked before so I'd rather not. I also wanted the code to be able to run
straight out of the box without people having to hard code the paths.

Thanks anyway though!

"Graham Fawcett" <graham__fawcett at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Matt Whiteley" <matt at cynetix.co.uk> wrote in message
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> > I have some python code in a directory called customModules and this
sits
> > under the main directory which contains a piece of server.py code. Under
> > 2.1.x and 2.2.x, I did the following in server.py :
> >
> > import time, sys
> > sys.path += ['./customModules']
> >
> > from requestHandler import inputHandler
> >
> > and that allowed me to reference the requestHandler (stored in the
> > customModules directory) code without having to use
> > customModules.requestHandler every time. Under 2.3.x this doesn't work
> > anymore and I get a "ImportError: cannot import name inputHandler"
error.
> > Can anyone shed some light on why this is and how I can get around it
> > please.
>
> Unless there's something going on here that's not clear from your
> example, you can just add an __init__.py to your customModules
> directory, and then use
>
> from customModules.requestHandler import inputHandler
>
> Adding __init__.py creates a "pacakge" out of the subdirectory, and
> obviates the sys.path manipulations. See the "Packages" section at
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node8.html for more information.
>
> -- Graham