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[gtb]

On Mar 20, 1:51 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mar 20, 1:31 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
> > The tool runs in
>
> > C:\maxq\bin.
>
> > Rather than clutter up bin I want to put the scripts and other .py
> > scripts in
>
> > c:\maxq\bin\testScripts.
>
> > When doing so the scripts need to import from
>
> > c:\maxq\jython, but can't find the modules.
>
> > I tried adding c:\maxq\jython to the environment variable pythonpath
> > but to no avail. Perhaps I missed it in Rossum's tutorial but is there
> > a std prgrammatic way to specify a module directory?
>
> > Could you, would you, recommend a text or another webpage for learning
> > more (much more) about python?
>
> > Thanx,
>
> > gtb
>
> I typically just import sys and then do a
> sys.path.append(directoryPath). This basically makes whatever modules
> in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
> book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
> for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
> get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
> a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programming Python"
> book by Lutz.
>
> Mike

Something else going on then, does the directory path need to be the
full path or will it search sub-directories?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\maxq-0.98\bin\testScripts\compactLogin.py", line 2, in
<module>
    from CompactTest import CompactTest
  File "c:\maxq-0.98\jython\CompactTest.py", line 2, in <module>
    from java.lang import *
ImportError: No module named java.lang

Thanks for the book recommendations.

gtb