[Tutor] accessing modules found throughout a package?

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> * Python will automatically add a ‘sys.path’ entry for the directory
>   containing the script named on the command line. So this:
>
>       $ cd ~/Projects/lorem/
>       $ python3 ./setup.py test
>
>   will run the ‘setup.py’ program with ‘sys.path’ already modified to
>   contain the directory ‘/home/YOURUSERNAME/Projects/lorem’. Any
>   packages in that directory are available for absolute import, *during*
>   that test suite run.

This behaviour is detailed further in the documentation
<URL:https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#using-on-interface-options>.

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Ben Finney