python app import guidelines

[Stephen Burke]

It was a pretty vague question but I think you guys pointed me in the
right direction.  I think distutils is what I'm missing.

Thanks for the help.
Steve

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Tim Chavez <timrchavez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> Maybe using a PYTHONPATH (or sys.path.append())  to specify the
> top-level of your package and then touch'ing __init__py's in all the
> directories leading to importable packages?  Maybe I've misunderstood
> the question though...
>
> -tim
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Burke
> <steve.burke.56 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am packaging up a python app to upload it to my PPA eventually.
>> Before this everything I have written is in one directory so all my
>> imports were simple.  Now that I am breaking up the app and the top
>> level script is in a "bin" directory and the helper scripts are in a
>> "helpers" directory on the same level.  How should my imports be with
>> this directory structure.  Would I modify the PYTHONPATH to add any
>> directories I need or is there a better way to do this?  I have read
>> python docs about imports but I'm wondering if there are any more
>> guidelines in terms of imports for python apps that are packaged for
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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