Hi,

imagine several packages for the same application, installed simultaneously on the same machine. These can be for example a recent stable/demo version, and a bleeding edge dev version. I want to be able to run them concurrently, but independently. To run with either simple_server or scgi_server, I am executing the respective python scripts as new processes, that implies that if I adjust os.path in the calling process, I cannot pass that env info to the child process. Or can I?

Looking at the code, I wonder whether it is (a) a good idea and (b) possible to be able to pass on to whichever server a parameter to add a specific dir to its os.path. I was imagining that either the factory param takes the form of
- str : as it is currently...
- (str, str) : a 2-tuple of str, where the frist str will be interpreted as a dir to add to os.path

Then, the quixote.util.import_object(name) is similarly modified, e.g. to:

quixote.util.import_object(name, add_to_path=None):
        if add_to_path is not None:
                if add_to_path not in os.path:
                        sys.path.insert(0, add_to_path)
        ...
        rest of function as as currently

Another way would be to add an "add_to_path" option to the various server scripts, that will then be handled separately (and before) from the import_object() call.

Does this sound reasonable, or is there a much simple way to do this?

mario

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