Jorey Bump
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Mon Jan 24 16:53:56 EST 2005
Graham Dumpleton wrote: > Jorey Bump wrote .. > >>There is no mechanism in Python to import a module by file path, so it's >>consistent, but confusing. The alternative would have been to force a >>working directory onto the user, much like a cgi-bin, and prepend that >>to sys.path. > > That "there is no mechanism in Python to import a module by file path" > isn't strictly true. There are actually a couple of ways of achieving it. I realized my poor choice of words as soon as I hit the send button. Obviously, it's possible, or you couldn't design your own import mechanism... > Now if you mean't specifically that one can't use the "import" statement to > import a module by path, then you are true. That's what I meant. Mea culpa. :P
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