[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear fellow Python enthusiasts,
>
> I trust your Thanksgiving holiday has been a relaxing one. A quick
> question for you: I have a script that attempts to import my_module from
> a folder that is not in Python's importable modules search path. In my
> script, that I run from the command line, I have the following lines:
>
> import os
> import sys
>
> PATH_TO_MODULE = os.path.join('path', 'to', 'my', 'module')
> sys.append(PATH_TO_MODULE)
Should be sys.path.append(...)
Kent
>
> import my_module
>
> When I attempt to run the script, I get the following error message:
>
> ImportError: No module named my_module
>
> In Python IDLE when I perform the aforementioned steps in the order
> indicated I can import my_module successfully. My assumption is
> Python's importable modules search path is in sys.path. In both cases I
> identify the path to the folder containing my module, I append said path
> to sys.path, and when I attempt to import my_module by either running
> from the command line or in IDLE, I get different behavior. I read the
> information here again:
>
> http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html
>
> so I believe I am doing everything correctly. Am I doing something wrong ?
>
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