I had a file called example_file.py, which I wanted to use from various other files, so I decided to add example_file.py to sys.path and import this file in another file to use the file. To do so, ...

I have been trying to fix the python path on my cpu, and I originally was just trying to change my .bash_profile, but that wasn't working, so I used import sys sys.pat.append(path/To/Module) and n...

I want to get the parent of current directory from Python script. For example I launch the script from /home/kristina/desire-directory/scripts the desire path in this case is /home/kristina/desire-...

UPDATE - A solution was found, see comments, and the end of this post for further details I am using Jupyter Notebook in VS Code, and trying to export my notebook to HTML through the Notebook menu ...

Currently, when trying to reference some library code, I'm doing this at the top of my python file: import sys sys.path.append('''C:\code\my-library''') from my-library import my-library Then, m...

I have installed a package with python setup.py install --user It looks it had been done in anaconda (base), though I can't remember. The module was installed in $HOME/.local/lib/python3.6/site-p...

Another developer and I disagree about whether PYTHONPATH or sys.path should be used to allow Python to find a Python package in a user (e.g., development) directory. We have a Python project with ...

I want to import a module in a project and it gives me lots of troubles because of an import error. So I decided to write a little test to see where the problem lies. I add a folder to my sys path ...

On my system, I have several modules installed multiple times. To give an example, numpy 1.6.1 is installed in the standard path at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, and I have an updated version o...

I've installed some packages during the execution of my script as a user. Those packages were the first user packages, so python didn't add ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages to the sys.path befo...

According to documentation, sys.path is initialized from PYTHONPATH when a Python interpreter session starts. However, in my case, PYTHONPATH variable is empty. When I execute this in a terminal: e...

I have all my .py files inside a folder script and all my IPython-notebooks under a folder named Notebook. There are multiple cross dependencies for each notebook file on one or more files on scr...

Consider a Python project like this: foo/ __init__.py scripts/ run.py demo.sh Under normal circumstances, attempting to import from the foo package will fail if you run the script from the roo...

I want to ensure that os.environ and sys.path are identical for all ways we start the Python interpreter: web requests via Django, and Apache mod_wsgi Cron jobs Interactive logins via ssh Celery j...

Some library does change my sys.path in a way that I don't want it to. But I can't find it. The affected virtualenv has a lot of libraries installed. I replaced sys.path with a own class which al...

Things were working fine a moment ago. I have no idea what I did to piss off virtualenv, but it's acting very strangely now. Any help is appreciated. When making a virtualenv, I use this command: ...

Due to a specific problem which I managed to solve, I spent most of today figuring out how site.py(s) work. There is a point which I don't understand. As far as I understand, when python is loaded...

My situation is as follows: I have a locally installed version of python. There exists also a global one, badly installed, which I do not want to use. (I don't have admin priviliges). On /usr/loc...

I'm confused about the rules used to construct my Python sys.path. I understand that the fist entry will be "the directory containing the script that was used to invoke the Python interpreter", or ...

Here is my directory structure: /home/dmugtasimov/tmp/name-res root tests __init__.py test_1.py __init__.py classes.py extra.py root.py File contents: root/tests/_init_.py import os, s...

When a non built-in module is imported, the interpreter searches in the locations given by sys.path. sys.path is initialized from these locations (http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.path):...

I've tried adding the following line to my handler script (main.py), but it doesn't seem to work: sys.path.append('subdir') subdir lives in the my root directory (i.e. the one containing app.y...