On Aug 27, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Josh English wrote: > (This may be a shortened double post) > > I have a development version of a library in c:\dev\XmlDB\xmldb > > After testing the setup script I also have c:\python27\lib\site-packages\xmldb > > Now I'm continuing to develop it and simultaneously building an application > with it. > > I thought I could plug into my site-packages directory a file called > xmldb.pth with: > > c:\dev\XmlDB\xmldb > > which should redirect import statements to the development version of the > library. > > This doesn't seem to work.
xmldb.pth should contain the directory that contains xmldb: c:\dev\XmlDB Examining sys.path at runtime probably would have helped you to debug the effect of your .pth file. On another note, I don't know if the behavior of 'import xmldb' is defined when xmldb is present both as a directory in site-pacakges and also as a .pth file. You're essentially giving Python two choices from where to import xmldb, and I don't know which Python will choose. It may be arbitrary. I've looked for some sort of statement on this topic in the documentation, but haven't come across it yet. > Is there a better way to redirect import statements without messing with the > system path or the PYTHONPATH variable? Personally I have never used PYTHONPATH. Hope this helps Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
