Python site-packages and import

[Peter Saffrey]

(apologies for starting a new thread - Google can't retrieve the other
message for some reason)

Yes, /usr/lib/python/site-packages is in sys.path. This series of
commands should explain what I mean: I've put the Python ID3 module in
a sub-directory of site-packages as an illustration.

pzs at bonnie:~$ ls /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/
ID3.py  ID3.pyc  ID3.pyo  README  apt_inst.so  apt_pkg.so  apt_proxy 
bsddb3  debconf.py  debconf.pyc  debconf.pyo  id3  pj  twisted

pzs at bonnie:~$ ls /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/apt_proxy/
__init__.py   __init__.pyo  apt_proxy.pyc  apt_proxy_conf.py  
apt_proxy_conf.pyo  apt_proxytap.pyc  memleak.py   memleak.pyo 
misc.pyc  packages.py   packages.pyo
__init__.pyc  apt_proxy.py  apt_proxy.pyo  apt_proxy_conf.pyc 
apt_proxytap.py     apt_proxytap.pyo  memleak.pyc  misc.py     
misc.pyo  packages.pyc  twisted_compat

pzs at bonnie:~$ ls /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/id3       
ID3.py  ID3.pyc  ID3.pyo

pzs at bonnie:~$ python
Python 2.3.5 (#2, Feb  9 2005, 00:38:15) 
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages',
'/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages']
>>> import apt_proxy.memleak
>>> import id3.ID3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named id3.ID3
>>> 



Peter