problem(s) with import from parent dir: "from ../brave.py import sir_robin"

[per9000]

Dear Black Knight,

I have no quarrel with you sir Knight, but I must import your parents.


SHORT VERSION:

I tried three variants of "from ../brave.py import sir_robin", one
works. I want to use it in a py-file to execute command-line-style and
that does not work.

Can someone please give me, not a bucket with the desert(s) on top, but
just the thin chocolate?

/per9000 (per nine thousand at gmail dot com)


LONG VERSION:

Since I do not want to use absoute paths I want to import a file from
two folders up and then one down.

This problem seems to be discussed in:
http://starship.python.net/pipermail/python-au/2005/000543.html
I tried following it but I did not understand and/or try hard enough
and/or my father smells of elderberrys.

So...

...first I tried this: "from ../brave.py import sir_robin" (and
variants)

But all I got was syntax or import error(s).

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Then I tried to fool python by walking the path up with os.chdir('..')
in the line-by-line interpreter.
This (surprisingly) worked just fine.

C:\my\holy\grail\that_old_bridge>python
>>> import os
>>> os.chdir('../../py_scripts')
>>> os.getcwd()
'C:\\my\\holy\\py_scripts'
>>> from raw2nice_def import raw2nice
>>> os.listdir('.')
['raw2nice_def.py', 'raw2nice_def.pyc', 'temp']
>>> raw2nice
<function raw2nice at 0x00A28230>

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When I tried putting this into a program to execute command-line-style:

the interesting code:

import os
cwd = os.getcwd()
os.chdir('../../py_scripts')
print os.listdir('.')
from raw2nice_def.py import raw2nice
os.chdir(cwd)

output:

> "C:\another_bridge\python\python.exe" rawhtml2nicehtml_template.py
['raw2nice_def.py', 'raw2nice_def.pyc', 'temp']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:my\holy\grail\that_old_bridge\rawhtml2nicehtml_template.py",
line 10, in ?
    from raw2nice_def.py import raw2nice
ImportError: No module named raw2nice_def.py

The worst part here is that os.listdir('.') returns ['raw2nice_def.py',
'raw2nice_def.pyc', 'temp'] - meaning (to me) that Python really should
"feel" my nice file but somehow still does not see it.

To me this also means that python::command_line does not concurr with
python::line_by_line(!?!)

Can someone please give me, not a bucket with the desert(s) on top, but
just the thin chocolate?

/per9000 (per nine thousand at gmail dot com)