ImportError depending on the calling module

Samuel knipknap at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 12:22:39 EDT 2007


On Sep 6, 6:13 pm, Samuel <knipk... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why does it matter whether I install it in sys.path or whether
> sys.path is modified? What's the difference?
>
> What I am doing is I ship two modules in one tarball with my software.
> The software is only unpacked and ran. It has to work without
> installation.

I see now how this works; when a script is ran, only the top-level of
the current module is searched. Now that's just ugly, but well... at
least I now know how to work around this.

Thanks,
-Samuel




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