Alex Martelli wrote: > Jeremy Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi - Is it possible to override the import process so that if in my program >> I do >> >> import foo.bar >> >> Python will look for bar in a directory which isn't called foo? >> >> I want my module/program to be able to be run without being installed in >> site-packages, so by doing "import foo.bar", it should start looking for >> bar in the current directory which could be called "foo-0.43". >> >> I've tried overriding __import__, chopping out "foo." from package names, >> but that tends to break. I've also tried overriding imp.find_module() but >> Python never appears to use my version. >> >> Any ideas? > > Yes, PEP 302 (which despite being marked as "draft" has in fact been > already mostly implemented, since it's used by the zipimport mechanism) > allows you to perform such feats. Study it at > <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0302/> ...
There are also other ways. You could extend __path__ of foo, and the pkgutil module might also be useful. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
