OK I've had a modicum of success! However I was forced to add the path to my application folder to sys.path, which I suppose is the closest I can get to what I want. The example given then works in the shell.
Apache is another problem. I added the same path to the script then Apache finds the application folder and does the importing. Not an ideal solution, but workable. I hope Apache3 in the future has more smarts about importing relative filepaths. Thank you Peter for your patience on this! -- Rachel http://google.com/profiles/Gnarlodious -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list