Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:29:05 +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > >> However, when i make a subdirectory, for example database and put a >> script in there, how would i import logutils or mailtutils from within >> the database subdirectory? This fails: >> from tools.logutils import logger > > Sounds like you need to ensure that the top level directory needs to be > added to your PYTHONPATH. > > Do you need instructions to do this? >
Hi Steve, thanks, i think i know how to add the top level directory to the PYTHONPATH. I'm however looking further into the suggestion of ssteinerX to use a setup.py file to add the tools utility scripts to the pythonpath. In the near future, another person will be helping me with programming and thus, i want to make sure the structure is usable by other people than myself. Furthermore, i'm thinking if it wouldn't be cleaner to make such a setup.py file per script, at least the bigger, more important scripts. Now my structure is like this: python_scripts | |-->trunk ......|-----> all scripts ......|-----> tools The python_scripts directory and subdirs are versioned via SVN. I think these steps would help: 1. Make a package of tools. 2. Put the bigger scripts in a seperate directory also using a setup.py file. 3. If possible, put the other scripts that somehow belong together in a seperate directory. Names need to be more clear but i'm just illustrating a point. python_scripts | |-->trunk ......|-----> my big script 1 ................|-----> setup.py ......|-----> my big script 2 ................|-----> setup.py ......|-----> database ................|-----> database script 1 ................|-----> database script 2 ......|-----> tools ................|-----> setup.py Does that look like a clear structure? Thanks, Benedict -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
