Hm, so if I import glob, and then execute this line:

print glob.glob('/Local_HD/Users/mike/Documents/pythonModules/*.py')

I simply get brackets returned:

[]


...not sure what this means. Thanks again.





On Feb 14, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Danny Yoo wrote:



On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Mike Hall wrote:

Can you show us what your sys.path looks like?  Just do a
cut-and-paste so we can quickly validate it for you.

Thanks for the response. Here's a paste of what sys.path returns. The first listing is the path inside of environment.plist:

['', '/Local_HD/Users/mike/Documents/pythonModules',
'/Users/tempmike/Documents/pythonModules',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python23.zip',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/plat-darwin',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/plat-mac',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/lib-tk',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/lib-dynload',
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/
python2.3/site-packages']

Can you show us the exact thing you're typing, as well as the literal
error that Python shows?

I will attempt to import using 'import' followed by file name. Example:


import module1

The error returned will be:

ImportError: No module named module1


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Hi Mike,

Ok, can you do this at the Python prompt?

###
import glob
print glob.glob('/Local_HD/Users/mike/Documents/pythonModules/*.py')
###

Copy and paste the output you see.

If things go wrong, then we will have a good focus point to debug the
problem. But if things go right --- if you see a bunch of Python module
files --- then I will be stuck and will have to think of something else.
*grin*




Do you have problems doing an import if your modules's directory is
the current working directory?

Funny you should mention that. After posting to this list, I tried
cd'ing over to the dir I created for modules, and then launched Python.
My modules can indeed be imported using this method. But I'm still
curious as to why I cannot get a successful import (when I'm not within
my work dir) when the path is visibly defined within the sys.path
variable? Thanks very much.

Ok, so there appears to be nothing wrong with the modules themselves or with importing them when they're in the current working directory. We should then focus on sys.path itself, since that's the mechanism Python uses to lookup modules that aren't in the current directory.

For the moment, I'll assume that there's something funky with the
pathname.  As mentioned earlier, it could be as subtle as a
case-sensitivity issue.  The glob statement above will help us check to
see if Python can see those files, at least.


Best of wishes to you!


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