Imports

[gtb]

I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
The tool runs in

C:\maxq\bin.


Rather than clutter up bin I want to put the scripts and other .py
scripts in

c:\maxq\bin\tes tScripts.


When doing so the scripts need to import from

c:\maxq\jython, but can't find the modules.


I tried adding c:\maxq\jython to the environment variable pythonpath
but to no avail. Perhaps I missed it in Rossum's tutorial but is there
a std prgrammatic way to specify a module directory?

Could you, would you, recommend a text or another webpage for learning
more (much more) about python?

Thanx,

gtb

[kyosohma@gmail.com]

Re: Imports

On Mar 20, 1:31 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB.. .@hotmail.comwr ote:

I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
The tool runs in
>
C:\maxq\bin.
>
Rather than clutter up bin I want to put the scripts and other .py
scripts in
>
c:\maxq\bin\tes tScripts.
>
When doing so the scripts need to import from
>
c:\maxq\jython, but can't find the modules.
>
I tried adding c:\maxq\jython to the environment variable pythonpath
but to no avail. Perhaps I missed it in Rossum's tutorial but is there
a std prgrammatic way to specify a module directory?
>
Could you, would you, recommend a text or another webpage for learning
more (much more) about python?
>
Thanx,
>
gtb

I typically just import sys and then do a
sys.path.append (directoryPath) . This basically makes whatever modules
in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
book by Lutz.

Mike

[gtb]

Re: Imports

On Mar 20, 1:51 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:

On Mar 20, 1:31 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB.. .@hotmail.comwr ote:
>
>
>

I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
The tool runs in

>

C:\maxq\bin.

>

Rather than clutter up bin I want to put the scripts and other .py
scripts in

>

c:\maxq\bin\tes tScripts.

>

When doing so the scripts need to import from

>

c:\maxq\jython, but can't find the modules.

>

I tried adding c:\maxq\jython to the environment variable pythonpath
but to no avail. Perhaps I missed it in Rossum's tutorial but is there
a std prgrammatic way to specify a module directory?

>

Could you, would you, recommend a text or another webpage for learning
more (much more) about python?

>

Thanx,

>

gtb

>
I typically just import sys and then do a
sys.path.append (directoryPath) . This basically makes whatever modules
in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
book by Lutz.
>
Mike

Something else going on then, does the directory path need to be the
full path or will it search sub-directories?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\maxq-0.98\bin\testSc ripts\compactLo gin.py", line 2, in
<module>
from CompactTest import CompactTest
File "c:\maxq-0.98\jython\Com pactTest.py", line 2, in <module>
from java.lang import *
ImportError: No module named java.lang

Thanks for the book recommendations .

gtb

[kyosohma@gmail.com]

Re: Imports

On Mar 20, 1:59 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB.. .@hotmail.comwr ote:

On Mar 20, 1:51 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:
>
>
>

On Mar 20, 1:31 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB.. .@hotmail.comwr ote:

>

I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
The tool runs in

>

C:\maxq\bin.

>

Rather than clutter up bin I want to put the scripts and other .py
scripts in

>

c:\maxq\bin\tes tScripts.

>

When doing so the scripts need to import from

>

c:\maxq\jython, but can't find the modules.

>

I tried adding c:\maxq\jython to the environment variable pythonpath
but to no avail. Perhaps I missed it in Rossum's tutorial but is there
a std prgrammatic way to specify a module directory?

>

Could you, would you, recommend a text or another webpage for learning
more (much more) about python?

>

Thanx,

>

gtb

>

I typically just import sys and then do a
sys.path.append (directoryPath) . This basically makes whatever modules
in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
book by Lutz.

>

Mike

>
Something else going on then, does the directory path need to be the
full path or will it search sub-directories?
>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\maxq-0.98\bin\testSc ripts\compactLo gin.py", line 2, in
<module>
from CompactTest import CompactTest
File "c:\maxq-0.98\jython\Com pactTest.py", line 2, in <module>
from java.lang import *
ImportError: No module named java.lang
>
Thanks for the book recommendations .
>
gtb

Usually, the sys.path.append will allow Python to search the
subfolders too, but I have noticed that sometimes it doesn't if you
use UNC paths. I don't use jython, so maybe there's another way to fix
this that is more specific to that implementation of Python?

Mike

[gtb]

Re: Imports

On Mar 20, 2:25 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:

On Mar 20, 1:59 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB.. .@hotmail.comwr ote:
>
>
>

On Mar 20, 1:51 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:

>

On Mar 20, 1:31 pm, "gtb" <goodTweetieB.. .@hotmail.comwr ote:

>

I am working with a tool called maxQ that generates jython scripts.
The tool runs in

>

C:\maxq\bin.

>

Rather than clutter up bin I want to put the scripts and other .py
scripts in

>

c:\maxq\bin\tes tScripts.

>

When doing so the scripts need to import from

>

c:\maxq\jython, but can't find the modules.

>

I tried adding c:\maxq\jython to the environment variable pythonpath
but to no avail. Perhaps I missed it in Rossum's tutorial but is there
a std prgrammatic way to specify a module directory?

>

Could you, would you, recommend a text or another webpage for learning
more (much more) about python?

>

Thanx,

>

gtb

>

I typically just import sys and then do a
sys.path.append (directoryPath) . This basically makes whatever modules
in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
book by Lutz.

>

Mike

>

Something else going on then, does the directory path need to be the
full path or will it search sub-directories?

>

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\maxq-0.98\bin\testSc ripts\compactLo gin.py", line 2, in
<module>
from CompactTest import CompactTest
File "c:\maxq-0.98\jython\Com pactTest.py", line 2, in <module>
from java.lang import *
ImportError: No module named java.lang

>

Thanks for the book recommendations .

>

gtb

>
Usually, the sys.path.append will allow Python to search the
subfolders too, but I have noticed that sometimes it doesn't if you
use UNC paths. I don't use jython, so maybe there's another way to fix
this that is more specific to that implementation of Python?
>
Mike

Thanks for the sys.path.append info. Turns out maxq cranks thing up
with java ( I should have seen it). The sys.path.append does
everything it supposed to do.

gtb

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: Imports

En Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:25:41 -0300, <kyosohma@gmail .comescribió:

Usually, the sys.path.append will allow Python to search the
subfolders too, but I have noticed that sometimes it doesn't if you
use UNC paths. I don't use jython, so maybe there's another way to fix
this that is more specific to that implementation of Python?

Python does not search subfolders during a normal import. Perhaps you were
thinking about subpackages?

--
Gabriel Genellina

[7stud]

Re: Imports

On Mar 20, 12:51 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:

I typically just import sys and then do a
sys.path.append (directoryPath) . This basically makes whatever modules
in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
book by Lutz.
>
Mike

I can't access any modules using the sys.path.append () method. Here
is my directory structure:

/
----Users
---------Me
------------2testing
------------------dir1
---------------------test1.py
---------------------programs_python
-----------------------------testA.py

testA.py:
------------------------
def show(x):
print x

if __name__ == "__main__":
show("hello")
------------------------

test1.py:
------------------------
import sys

sys.path.append ("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python ")
testA.show("hel lo")
------------------------

command:
~/2testing/dir1$ python test1.py

output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test1.py", line 4, in ?
testA.show("hel lo")
NameError: name 'testA' is not defined

Any idea how to do that?

[7stud]

Re: Imports

On Mar 20, 6:33 pm, "7stud" <bbxx789_0...@y ahoo.comwrote:

On Mar 20, 12:51 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:
>

I typically just import sys and then do a
sys.path.append (directoryPath) . This basically makes whatever modules
in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
book by Lutz.

>

Mike

>
I can't access any modules using the sys.path.append () method. Here
is my directory structure:
>
/
----Users
---------Me
------------2testing
------------------dir1
---------------------test1.py
---------------------programs_python
-----------------------------testA.py
>
testA.py:
------------------------
def show(x):
print x
>
if __name__ == "__main__":
show("hello")
------------------------
>
test1.py:
------------------------
import sys
>
sys.path.append ("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python ")
testA.show("hel lo")
------------------------
>
command:
~/2testing/dir1$ python test1.py
>
output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test1.py", line 4, in ?
testA.show("hel lo")
NameError: name 'testA' is not defined
>
Any idea how to do that?

Hmmm...I got it to work like this:

test1.py:
---------
import sys
sys.path.append ("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python ")

import testA
testA.show("hel lo")

[Steve Holden]

Re: Imports

7stud wrote:

On Mar 20, 6:33 pm, "7stud" <bbxx789_0...@y ahoo.comwrote:

>On Mar 20, 12:51 pm, kyoso...@gmail. com wrote:
>>

>>I typically just import sys and then do a
>>sys.path.appe nd(directoryPat h). This basically makes whatever modules
>>in that path available at run time. If you need a beginners reference
>>book, I recommend "Beginning Python" by Hetland. "Python Programming
>>for the Absolute Beginner" by Dawson was a lot of fun, but he doesn't
>>get into the internals of the language like Hetland does. Once you're
>>a snake charmer too, you can "graduate" to the "Programmin g Python"
>>book by Lutz.
>>Mike

>I can't access any modules using the sys.path.append () method. Here
>is my directory structure:
>>
>/
>----Users
>---------Me
>------------2testing
>------------------dir1
>---------------------test1.py
>---------------------programs_python
>-----------------------------testA.py
>>
>testA.py:
>------------------------
>def show(x):
> print x
>>
>if __name__ == "__main__":
> show("hello")
>------------------------
>>
>test1.py:
>------------------------
>import sys
>>
>sys.path.appen d("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python ")
>testA.show("he llo")
>------------------------
>>
>command:
>~/2testing/dir1$ python test1.py
>>
>output:
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test1.py", line 4, in ?
> testA.show("hel lo")
>NameError: name 'testA' is not defined
>>
>Any idea how to do that?

>
Hmmm...I got it to work like this:
>
test1.py:
---------
import sys
sys.path.append ("/Users/Me/2testing/dir1/programs_python ")
>
import testA
testA.show("hel lo")
>

That's how it's s'posed to work. You still have to explicitly import the
modules you want - the sys.path just tells Python where to look for them.

regards
Steve
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