organizing many python scripts, in a large corporate environment.

[Tim Johnson]

* Phat Fly Alanna <flannelsaurus at gmail.com> [110312 07:22]:
> We've been doing a fair amount of Python scripting, and now we have a
> directory with almost a hundred loosely related scripts. It's
> obviously time to organize this, but there's a problem. These scripts
> import freely from each other and although code reuse is  generally a
> good thing it makes it quite complicated to organize them into
> directories.
> 
> There's a few things that you should know about our corporate
> environment:
> 
> 1) I don't have access to the users' environment. Editing the
> PYTHONPATH is out, unless it happens in the script itself.
> 2) Users don't install things. Systems are expected to be *already*
> installed and working, so setup.py is not a solution.
> 
> I'm quite willing to edit my import statements and do some minor
> refactoring, but the solutions I see currently require me to divide
> all  the code strictly between "user runnable scripts" and
> "libraries", which isn't feasible, considering the amount of code.
> 
> Has anyone out there solved a similar problem? Are you happy with it?
  Slightly similar - time doesn't permit details, but I used among
  other things 4 methods that worked well for me:
  1)'Site modules' with controlling constants,including paths
  2)Wrappers for the __import__ function that enabled me to fine -
  tune where I was importing from.
  3)Cut down on the number of executables by using 'loaderers'.
  4)I modified legacy code to take lessons from the MVC architecture,
  and in fact my architecture following these changes could be
  called 'LMVCC' for
  loader
  model
  view
  controller
  config

  I hope I've made some sense with these brief sentences.
-- 
Tim 
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