Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Alex Martelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To me, it makes sense: if a module is top-level, and thus not part of a > > package (and __main__ in particular is always in that state), then > > saying "import from the current package" has no well defined meaning, > > because there IS no "current package". > > Thanks for the explanations. > I do not have an opinion because I have not really thought this through. > > One of the things I was hoping for, however, was for a less hackish way > for scripts bundled with a package to access the package modules. > > That is, suppose I have directory ``mypackage`` with subdirectory > ``scripts``. > What is the pretty way for the scripts to access ``mypackage`` without > assuming ``mypackage`` is in ``sys.path``?
I don't know of any "pretty" way -- I'd do it by path manipulation (finding mypackage from os.path.abspath(__file__) and inserting its _parent_ directory in sys.path). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
