Help with pythonpath

[mg]

Tim Roberts wrote:

>Observer <observer at moscomono.ath.cx> wrote:
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>>Hi, im a newbie both to python and this list.
>>I hope someone can help me whith this:
>>
>>I have a directory structure like this:
>>.
>>|-- src
>>|   `-- pkg
>>|       |-- __init__.py
>>|       |-- main.py
>>|       `-- spkg1
>>|           |-- __init__.py
>>|           `-- config.py
>>`-- src2
>>   `-- pkg
>>       |-- __init__.py
>>       `-- spkg2
>>           |-- __init__.py
>>           `-- config2.py
>>
>>and main.py is a python script that contains this imports:
>>
>>    
>>
>>from pkg.spkg1 import config
>>from pkg.spkg2 import config2
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>>executed in linux whith this:
>>
>>env PYTHONPATH=src:src2 src/pkg/main.py
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "src/pkg/main.py", line 4, in ?
>>   from pkg.spkg2 import config2
>>ImportError: No module named spkg2
>>
>>changing the order of the python path only inverts the problem, is there
>>any way to solve this without changing the directory structure?
>>    
>>
>
>Nope.  When Python goes to look for a package called "pkg", it starts at
>the beginning of PYTHONPATH and stops as soon as it finds one.  You either
>need to use different names for the two packages (pkg1, pkg2), or use a
>symbolic link to link spkg2 into the src directory.
>  
>
If I remember, I think you need to add an __init__.py file just in your 
directories src & src2.
Moreover, you can add the path of src and src2 to the variable sys.path 
at the beginning of your main script (in that case, it not necessary to 
define PYTHONPATH)

I hope I help you
Mathieu