On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > I don't think I'd ever want to specify an absolute file path for the > module. But it would make my Python life immeasurably better if I could > specify *relative* file paths for importing a module. > > Allowing relative paths makes this portable, so long as the > application's relative tree structure is maintained. > > Maybe you can suggest a better portable method to do this today in > Python.
Ah, didn't think of relative paths. Yes, I can see that'd be both more useful and less problematic. What you suggest looks very much like you're running something from a package, though. > * The program ‘fooprog’ and the module ‘beans.py’ are in a sensible > directory structure:: > > foo-proj-1.0/ > foo/ > __init__.py > fooprog > bar/ > __init__.py > beans.py > tests/ > __init__.py > test_fooprog.py > test_bar.py So can you simply: $ python -m foo.fooprog ? (or 'python3', either way) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
