On 09/19/2018 09:59 PM, Chip Wachob wrote:
> Mats,
>
> Silly question here..
>
> But after using the git clone command, I've got a directory of the
> Adafruit project in the same directory as my project.
>
> When I import the library, will I get the 'installed' library, or do I
> get the library that is in the project directory?
>
> If I have to specify which library to use, how is that done?
you look at, and possibly modify, sys.path
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib64/python36.zip', '/usr/lib64/python3.6',
'/usr/lib64/python3.6/lib-dynload',
'/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages']
the first element '' is the local directory, so with my sys.path, it
would pick the local one first.
if you wanted the opposite, that is be _sure_ you get the installed one,
you could use a stanza something like this:
savepath = sys.path
sys.path = [path for path in sys.path if path.strip('.')]
import foo
sys.path = savepath
but this is actually kind of tricky stuff, trying to deal with possibly
two modules of the same name, so tread carefully.
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