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[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Mar 20, 1:59 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 20, 1:51 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
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>
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> > On Mar 20, 1:31 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
> > > The tool runs in
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> > > 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

Usually, the sys.path.append will allow Python to search the
subfolders too, but I have noticed that sometimes it doesn't if you
use UNC paths. I don't use jython, so maybe there's another way to fix
this that is more specific to that implementation of Python?

Mike