[Python-Dev] New relative import issue (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Sep 19 11:47:38 CEST 2006
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 03:46:59PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
There really shouldn't be any such thing as sys.path -- the view that any given module has of the package namespace should depend only on where it is
I do not understand this. Can you show an example? Imagine I have two servers, Linux and FreeBSD, and on Linux python is in /usr/bin, home is /home/phd, on BSD these are /usr/local/bin and /usr/home/phd. I have some modules in site-packages and some modules in $HOME/lib/python. How can I move programs from one server to the other without rewriting them (how can I not to put full paths to modules)? I use PYTHONPATH manipulation - its enough to write a shell script that starts daemons once and use it for many years. How can I do this without sys.path?!
Oleg.
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