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[Steve Holden]

7stud wrote:
> On Mar 20, 6:33 pm, "7stud" <bbxx789_0... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 20, 12:51 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>> I can't access any modules using the sys.path.append() method.  Here
>> is my directory structure:
>>
>> /
>> ----Users
>> ---------Me
>> ------------2testing
>> ------------------dir1
>> ---------------------test1.py
>> ---------------------programs_python
>> -----------------------------testA.py
>>
>> testA.py:
>> ------------------------
>> def show(x):
>>         print x
>>
>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>>         show("hello")
>> ------------------------
>>
>> test1.py:
>> ------------------------
>> import sys
>>
>> sys.path.append("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python")
>> testA.show("hello")
>> ------------------------
>>
>> command:
>> ~/2testing/dir1$ python test1.py
>>
>> output:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "test1.py", line 4, in ?
>>     testA.show("hello")
>> NameError: name 'testA' is not defined
>>
>> Any idea how to do that?
> 
> Hmmm...I got it to work like this:
> 
> test1.py:
> ---------
> import sys
> sys.path.append("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python")
> 
> import testA
> testA.show("hello")
> 
That's how it's s'posed to work. You still have to explicitly import the 
modules you want - the sys.path just tells Python where to look for them.

regards
  Steve
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