Python import search path!

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Dec 14, 3:44 pm, SMALLp <po... at email.t-com.hr> wrote:
> Hy!
> I'm new in Linux, and i feel little less newer in python.
>
> I need advice and help. I'm making an application witch purpose is
> irrelevant. It has a lot of code for now and I've only made interface.
> So I've tried to split code into separate files and in windows as I
> remember worked file when i wrote  eg. import myFile but now in Ubuntu
> it says Module not found. (I'm using Ubuntu and I've installed python
> 2.5 and wxPython 2.8.4, and I'm using GedIt as my favorite text editor).
> The question is how to make this work (files are in the same folder)
>

Not sure what is going on here from this description. You may need to
use the sys module and add the path to your module temporarily.

import sys
sys.path.append("//path/to/myFile")


> Second question is about import wx. When i separate code into files i
> have to write import wx into every file because all of them contains
> some part of the interface. Does that make my program bigger than
> putting everything into one file and use only one import.
>
>                 Thanks in advance.

No, importing wx in multiple files does not make it bigger. In fact,
as I understand it, Python will only import a module if it's not
already in the namespace. So if you import wx in your main module and
then import it again in some sub-module of yours, Python won't
actually import wx the second time, but will just use the one that's
in the namespace already.

See this thread for a more coherent explanation:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-November/293861.html

Mike