Tim Roberts wrote: >Observer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi, im a newbie both to python and this list. >>I hope someone can help me whith this: >> >>I have a directory structure like this: >>. >>|-- src >>| `-- pkg >>| |-- __init__.py >>| |-- main.py >>| `-- spkg1 >>| |-- __init__.py >>| `-- config.py >>`-- src2 >> `-- pkg >> |-- __init__.py >> `-- spkg2 >> |-- __init__.py >> `-- config2.py >> >>and main.py is a python script that contains this imports: >> >> >> >>from pkg.spkg1 import config >>from pkg.spkg2 import config2 > > >>executed in linux whith this: >> >>env PYTHONPATH=src:src2 src/pkg/main.py >>Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "src/pkg/main.py", line 4, in ? >> from pkg.spkg2 import config2 >>ImportError: No module named spkg2 >> >>changing the order of the python path only inverts the problem, is there >>any way to solve this without changing the directory structure? >> >> > >Nope. When Python goes to look for a package called "pkg", it starts at >the beginning of PYTHONPATH and stops as soon as it finds one. You either >need to use different names for the two packages (pkg1, pkg2), or use a >symbolic link to link spkg2 into the src directory. > > If I remember, I think you need to add an __init__.py file just in your directories src & src2. Moreover, you can add the path of src and src2 to the variable sys.path at the beginning of your main script (in that case, it not necessary to define PYTHONPATH)
I hope I help you Mathieu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
