Dennis Clark wrote:
> This is a total newb question, you have been warned...
>
> I've been all over the www.python.org site and googled, but I've not
> found just how to add new modules. I've tried setting PYTHONPATH,
> I've tried putting the new module directories into the site-packages
> directory, I've tried creating the .pth files, I've even done all
> three of these things at the same time and still my python script
> refuses to import. What is the cannonical way to add new modules
> to python? I am running on OS X 10.4 (Macintosh obviously) on basically
> freeBSD, os I'm doing UNIX type stuff at the console.
If you have a single file that you want to make available, put it directly in
site-packages. For example put mymodule.py in site-packages, then in code you
can say
from mymodule import MyClass
If you have a directory of files that you consider related, that is a package.
Put the directory in site-packages, add a file named __init__.py to the
directory, and import qualified with the directory name. For example if you have
site-packages/
mystuff/
__init__.py
mymodule.py
then in code you say
from mystuff.mymodule import MyClass
where in both cases MyClass is defined in mymodule.py.
Kent
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