If I put a *.pth file in site-packages it's giving an ImportError.
I'm not getting how to import by creating a *.pth file.
(Refers to importing in python)
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You should add a link to the original question, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/697281/importing-in-python – itsadok Mar 31 '09 at 07:29
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2-1: You should provide (1) code, (2) the actual error message, (3) the .pth file you're using. – S.Lott Mar 31 '09 at 12:41
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If you put a .pth file in the site-packages directory containing a path, python searches this path for imports. So I have a sth.pth file there that simply contains:
K:\Source\Python\lib
In that directory there are some normal Python modules:
logger.py
fstools.py
...
This allows to directly import these modules from other scripts:
import logger
log = logger.Log()
...
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But where do you put the sth.pth file? when python is installed in C:\python27 ? – Apr 01 '15 at 10:04
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thank you, i have used `import sys`; `sys.path.append(path)` for some time now. this works – jes516 Nov 03 '15 at 21:40
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/tmp/$ mkdir test; cd test
/tmp/test/$ mkdir foo; mkdir bar
/tmp/test/$ echo -e "foo\nbar" > foobar.pth
/tmp/test/$ cd ..
/tmp/$ python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 3 2009, 20:52:03)
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import site, sys
>>> site.addsitedir('test')
>>> sys.path[-3:]
['/tmp/test', '/tmp/test/foo', '/tmp/test/bar']
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