[Tutor] file accessibility across directories?

[dn]

On 29/02/24 13:06, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 2/28/24 15:39, James Hartley wrote:
>> While in the project directory:
>> $ pwd
>> /home/me/project
>> $ cat src/foo.py
>> class Foo:
>>      pass
>> $ cat utils/baz.py
>> from src.foo import Foo
>> $ python utils/baz.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "./baz.py", line 1 in <module>
>>      from src.foo import Foo
>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'src'
> 
> 
> When you run a script, the directory of the script is added to sys.path. 
> Not the directory you were in when you ran it.  You can print out 
> sys.path in utils/baz.py to convince yourself of this.  There's no src 
> in that directory (utils).

Whereas pytest works the other way around: run from the 
project-directory because its (internal) 'process of discovery' will 
find test* files by searching the entire directory-tree...
(hence the questions in earlier reply)

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Regards,
=dn