Hi Umang, On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Umang <umang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > foo-1.2.3.tar.gz > foo-1.2.3/ > foo-1.2.3/bin/ > foo-1.2.3/bin/foo > foo-1.2.3/foolib/ > foo-1.2.3/foolib/__init__.py > ... > > Now in foo-1.2.3/bin/foo how do I import foolib.wibble so that an installed > foo (i.e. /usr/bin/foo after a "setup.py install") can import from the > installed module/package (somewhere inside /usr/lib/) while a foo extracted > from a source tarball (foo-1.2.3/bin/foo) can import a module/package from > the extracted package (foo-1.2.3/foolib/wibble.py). >
The PyGTK project LottaNZB has the very same source tarball structure and the problem you describe has been solved as follows: Add an executable script "run-foo.sh" to the root directory foo-1.2.3 with the following content: #!/bin/sh FOOPATH=`dirname $0` PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:$FOOPATH" exec $FOOPATH/bin/foo $* This allows you to run 'foo' locally using 'run-foo.sh' without having to modify sys.path in bin/foo. It's probably not the most elegant approach, but it worked well for me. Regards, Severin
