[Zope] "import" within external method file doesn't work

[Rik Hoekstra]

From:           	christian@newopenness.de
Date sent:      	Tue, 28 Dec 1999 01:04:53 +0100
To:             	zope@zope.org
Subject:        	[Zope] "import" within external method file doesn't work

> Hello all,
> 
> I've tried to write a simple external method as described a thousand
> times in the excellent documentation. 
> Within the file "A", I'd like to import another file "B" within the same
> directory. But when I try to add a function from "A" as an external
> method somewhere in the tree and try to view the DTML document from
> which the method is called, Zope tells me that it can't find the module
> I tried to import in "A". Is this a bug or I'm too much newbie?

too much newbie ;-)
The point is that the python modules in the Extensions directory are 
not really modules _and_ they cannot import from the Extensions 
directory itself. You should put your module_to_be_imported somewhere 
in a directory in the pythonpath. 
<zopehome>/lib/python/Shared/<yourstuff> is a good place. Don't 
forget to add a (presumable empty) __init__.py module in the 
<yourstuff> directory. The module may then be imported by the python 
statement

import Shared.<yourstuff>.yourmodule 

or

from Shared.yourstuff import yourmodule. 

See the standard python documentation on http://www.python.org for 
more information on all this.

Rik