On Feb 1, 10:15 am, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote: > So suppose I want to modify the sys.path on the fly before running some code > which imports from one of the modules added. > > at run time I do > sys.path.extend(paths_to_add) > > but it still doesn't work and I get an import error. > > If I take these paths and add them to site-packages/my_paths.pth > everything works, but at run-time the paths which I actually see before > importing are exactly the same.
1. Is paths_to_add a nested list? 2. Have you tried inspecting the contents of sys.path AFTER calling extend method? Consider: py> sys.path.__len__() 14 py> sys.path.extend([[1,2,3]]) py> sys.path.__len__() 15 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
