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Graham Dumpleton
grahamd at dscpl.com.au
Thu May 11 06:17:18 EDT 2006
On 11/05/2006, at 6:15 PM, .: smilelover :. wrote: > ______________________________________________________________ >> Od: smilelover at centrum.cz >> Komu: <mod_python at modpython.org> >> CC: >> Datum: 10.05.2006 11:04 >> Předmět: mod_python and module importing >> >> Hi guys, >> I have a simple python web running on mod_python, but I have serious >> troubles with importing my own modules located in the project >> directory. >> >> I have index.py and a directory called "lib", which contains a >> file called >> MyWebTools.py. >> I have added the path to sys.path via: >> >> PythonPath "sys.path+[os.getcwd()+'/lib']" >> >> in .htaccess. >> >> But when I use "import MyWebTools", I get an error message saying >> no such >> module exists a and it is the same when I place MyWebTools.py >> directly >> into the project dir. >> >> The most weird I experienced is, that sometimes it works, >> somwtimes not. >> And sometimes it works partialy - the module is imported, but >> Python says >> that instances of a class contained in MyWebTools do not have certain >> attributes (even though they DO have them and when I declare the >> class in >> index.py, everything works fine). >> But most of the time it says the module is not there. >> >> So how can I safely import a module? >> >> > > OK, one of the problems was using os.getcwd() in PythonPath > directive. It returns / and it returns / even if called directly in > the script (index.py). It is not necessary to use it at all > (mod_python adds the base script dir in PythonPath when index.py is > called, doesn't it?). > When I added __init__.py with appropriate content to the lib dir, > it worked. Add an __init__.py file into the "lib" directory doesn't make a great deal of sense unless what you were actually doing was: from lib import MyWebTools That is, "lib" was really acting like a package. If not, I don't see how it would make any difference. Graham
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