[Zope] import from a product's Extensions

[Mitchell L Model]

At 2:57 PM -0400 9/16/01, marc lindahl wrote:
>How about
>from Extensions import Utils
>
>or
>from Extensions.Utils import *
>
>since you're running in the Prod directory already...

I should have been clearer:

  1.  I start up pdb from the lib/Python directory
   2. My external methods are in my product's Extensions directory,
       lib/python/Products/Prod/Extensions

So, your suggestions aren't quite right, but for some reason they 
twisted something
in my brain and I realized that I didn't have an __init__.py in my 
Extensions folder, so it wasn't recognized as a module.  (Normally 
you wouldn't need an __init__.py in the directory because you never 
do import it -- the Zope external method mechanism can find it 
anyway.  So it didn't occur to me to put one there.  But if I want to 
call my external methods directly from pdb without going through the 
Zope external method mechanism (which I could also do in pdb), I have 
to import the files, and therefore need a __init__.py in my 
Extensions folder.

Thanks for the response.

>
>>  From: Mitchell L Model <mlm@acm.org>
>>  Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:36:56 -0400
>>  To: zope@zope.org
>>  Subject: [Zope] import from a product's Extensions
>>
>>  While debugging in pdb I want to experiment with some Python methods
>>  in my product's Extensions folder.  I can import modules from my
>>  product directory, but I can't figure out how to import from my
>>  product's Extensions directory.  Given a product named Prod and a
>>  file Utils.py in Extensions, none of the following work:
>>
>>  import Prod.Extensions.Utils
>>  import Prod.Utils
>>  import Products.Prod.Extensions.Utils
>>  import Products.Prod.Utils