[Tutor] accessing modules found throughout a package?

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Sun Oct 18 13:26:51 EDT 2015


On 18/10/15 16:33, Alex Kleider wrote:

>> How does one arrange so "the top level directory _can_ be found within
>> Python's path."?
>
> Is the answer to include the following at the beginning of each file?
>
> if not 'path/to/top/level/package/directory' in sys.path:
>      sys.path.append('path/to/top/level/package/directory')

You could, but you can also add it to your PYTHONPATH environment variable.


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