[Zope-dev] Organizing modules in a python product

Itai Tavor itai@optusnet.com.au
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:59:54 +1100


Thanks, Dieter. You're right, I definitely wouldn't want to use this 
solution. I was hoping for something that can be done inside the 
product :-(


Dieter Maurer wrote:

>Itai Tavor writes:
>  > ... abbreviated references to sibling subproducts ...
>  > Is there any way to set this up so imports like 'import Utils' and
>  > 'import Module2' would work in Module1? As a bonus, can I also get
>  > __init__.py files in each module directory to be executed?
>You can manipulate (extend) "sys.path" in your (top level)
>"__init__.py" file. Python starts its package/module lookup
>from the elements in "sys.path".
>
>However, I doubt very much, that you should do this!
>You will lose the namespace isolation provided by packages.
>
>
>
>Dieter

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