cronoklee <cronok...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I'm starting my first python project but I'm having trouble getting >off the ground. >I've read all I can find about relative and absolute import paths but >it's just not making sense to me... There seems to be around ten >different ways to import a script.
That's not really true. >I need my project to be portable so I can copy the whole folder to run >on any PC that has python installed. Is it always possible to simply >include modules in the project directory and reference them without >installing into the main python directory? Absolutely. >I've managed this with >small classes through trial and error but when I try it with anything >larger (like PIL module for example) I get errors. Do I need to >actually install anything or is it enough just to include the relevant >scripts? PIL requires DLLs as well as other Python files. You can't just copy the top-level PIL files to your own private directory. >All the modules I've found come with tonnes of files and >subdirectories. Do I need all these files or should I just choose the >scripts/folders I need? If you are delivering a program to clients, then you should look at something like py2exe, which will examine your code and produce a zip file that includes all of the files your application will need. If you are delivering a script for someone that will definitely have Python installed, then you just need to identify the dependencies. Let that person install PIL. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
