[Zope] import inside an external method

[Andy McKay]

Put a blank __init__.py file in the extensions directory, assuming the
containing folder is in the python path (which it probably is).
--
  Andy McKay
  www.agmweb.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: "Courtland Idstrom" <court@pixar.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: [Zope] import inside an external method


> Hi -
>
> I'm dealing with a few external methods that I prefer to keep in
> separate files. There are a few shared routines that I need to import
> from them, but unfortunately I can't find a way to import things in the
> Extensions directory (for example I need to import a few things from a
> files called shared.py). The only way I've successfully gotten this to
> work is by adding the current path to Extensions to sys.path before
> 'import shared'. I'd rather not do it this way in case my zope
> installation moves paths/servers, etc.
>
> Notice that the usual __path__ and __file__ properties from python seem
> to be inaccessible, so I can't add it to sys.path in a way that's going
> to work in the future.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> -Courtland
>
>
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