Importing modules

[Chris Rebert]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> import os
>>
>> os.path.append('$HOME/gsutils/boto')
>>
>> thinking I could then successfully do the import boto statement.
>> Nope.
>
> You'll need to give the literal path. Substitution of environment
> variables isn't performed implicitly in strings.

Also, that should be sys.path.append(); os.path is an unrelated module
that has no `append` function. You'll need to import sys instead of os
obviously.

Cheers,
Chris
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