[IronPython] Some More Newbie Questions

[Michael Foord]

On 11/05/2010 21:50, Dino Viehland wrote:
> Matt Funke:
>    
>> In IronPython Tools for Visual Studio 2010, how do you make it clear
>> where the location of a file to be included is?  I have this line that
>> trips up the execution:
>>
>> from avalon import *
>>
>> ... even though avalon.py is in the same directory, and that directory
>> is pointed to by the Search Path.  It throws an ImportError, insisting
>> that there is "No module named avalon".  Is there some other thing I
>> need to point at this that I'm missing?
>>      
> How are you launching the app?  Is it via the interactive window or are you
> doing a start w/ or w/o debugger?  It looks like we don't set the path in
> the interactive window but we do otherwise.
>
> Of course being in the same directory (as the start file) should mean
> that it's available for import anyway.  If you could do:
>
> import System
> import sys
> print System.Environment.CurrentDirectory, sys.path
>
> and see if those values are the correct dir for your project and include
> the directories you've setup in the search path.
>
> I'm also not sure how I feel about setting the search path via the UI
> in general.  I'm a little concerned that it'll make it too easy to create
> scripts that work when launched in VS but not outside of VS.  So if anyone
> has any feedback on how this should be handled I'd love to hear it.
>
>    

Hmm... Wing lets you set the search paths for the IDE so that it can 
correctly find modules / packages for intellisense (etc). It *doesn't* 
automatically add these path entries to sys.path when you run under 
debugging though.

Michael


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