OT: Python Import question

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to tell one python script to import another, the
> problem is the other script is in a different non-child folder.
> Neither are in the default import path. I can't set PYTHONPATH before
> hand and when i set it inside a script it seems to have no effect, eg
> 
> import os
> os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] = '/folder/containing/secondscript'
> import script2
> 
> I'm stumped so any help much appreciated
> 
> thanks
> 
> jebw

By the time you are inside python you want to set sys.path

import sys

sys.path.append('/folder/containing/other/script')

or

sys.path.insert(0, '/folder/containing/other/script')

Just depending on whether you want python to search there first for
things (override if it is located elsewhere) or last (if it hasn't found
it, use it from there).

John
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