Thomas Heller wrote:
> There are also other ways. You could extend __path__ of foo, and the
> pkgutil module might also be useful.
The __path__ trick worked nicely, thanks. Here is the code in case anyone is
interested
# Allow veusz to be run even if not installed into PYTHONPATH
try:
import veusz
except ImportError:
# load in the veusz module, but change its path to
# the veusz directory, and insert it into sys.modules
import __init__ as veusz
thisdir = os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath(__file__) )
veusz.__path__ = [thisdir]
veusz.__name__ = 'veusz'
sys.modules['veusz'] = veusz
This is part of the main program. If it can't import it (i.e. it is not
installed), it imports the __init__ module, renames it, and corrects its
path, then sticks it into the list of imported modules.
Jeremy
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