On Aug 29, 1:15 pm, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Aug, 19:08, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have tried running both commands above from the mypackage directory > > and unittests directory. I get the following response universtally. > > > C:\mypackage>dir > > Volume in drive C is Default > > > Directory of C:\mypackage > > > 08/29/2008 11:04 AM <DIR> . > > 08/29/2008 11:04 AM <DIR> .. > > 08/29/2008 11:05 AM <DIR> module1 > > 08/29/2008 11:05 AM <DIR> module2 > > 08/29/2008 11:06 AM <DIR> unittests > > 08/29/2008 11:04 AM 0 __init__.py > > 1 File(s) 0 bytes > > 5 Dir(s) 55,402,070,016 bytes free > > If you run unittests\alltests.py from here, sys.pathwill initially > refer to this directory (C:\mypackage) and to anything else set up in > your environment. The extrapathmodification that you put in > alltests.py will append (or insert) the following... > > os.path.normpath( os.path.join( __file__, "../../" )) > -> os.path.normpath( os.path.join( "C\\:mypackage\\unittests\ > \alltests.py", "../../" )) > -> os.path.normpath( "C\\:mypackage" ) > -> "C\\:mypackage" > > Since the import statement then tries to access mypackage, which isn't > itself in the C:\mypackage directory - it's in the C:\ directory - the > import fails. The previous, automatically added entry in sys.pathis > duplicated by thepathmodifications shown above, so that won't help > here, either. > > > C:\mypackage>dir unittests > > Volume in drive C is Default > > > Directory of C:\mypackage\unittests > > > 08/29/2008 11:06 AM <DIR> . > > 08/29/2008 11:06 AM <DIR> .. > > 08/29/2008 11:05 AM 0 alltests.py > > 08/29/2008 11:05 AM 0 test1.py > > 08/29/2008 11:05 AM 0 test2.py > > 08/29/2008 11:04 AM 0 __init__.py > > 4 File(s) 0 bytes > > 2 Dir(s) 55,401,988,096 bytes free > > Here, sys.pathshould refer to C:\mypackage\unittests somewhere, which > won't help Python find mypackage. Thepathmodification in alltests.py > should perform as above, producing C:\mypackage which won't help. > > I guess the easiest thing to do is to change thepathmodification > code to use "../../.." which should produce a reference to C:\ instead > of C:\mypackage. The confusion with this particular piece of the code > is the way ".." doesn't cause os.path.join to operate on the directory > C:\mypackage\unittests but instead on the file C:\mypackage\unittests > \alltests.py - that's almost to be expected, however, since > os.path.join doesn't really know that its first argument is really a > file or that ".." is being combined with a file. > > What I tend to do, especially with __file__, is to first use > os.path.split to remove the filename - strictly speaking, it's the > leafname - and then to apply the kind of modifications mentioned > above, although there's probably no real difference or, indeed, any > advantage with either approach. > > Paul
Thanks Paul. That did the trick. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
