[Zope] Newbe: Can't import to external script

[Peter Bengtsson]

On 12/7/05, Tom Redfern <zthos at fonebone.net> wrote:
>
>
> Ok, I'm new and I know this should be easy.  I don't find it
> documented anywhere, and I've been digging through the list archives
> without success.
>
> I have and external python script in the Extensions directory.
>
> I call it, it works.
>
> How do a call a method (module) with an absolute path name in the
> filesystem from this module?
>
> I want to import my own module.  Running the script from the command
> line honors #INCDIR to add to the path, of course, but in my zope
> installation, even placing the module in the Extensions directory won't
> accomplish the deed.  Python can't find it.
>
zope/Extensions is not part of the sys path.
To find out what it is part of it write an externa method like this:

import sys
def findstuffout():
    return '<br>'.join(sys.path)


> What am I missing here?
>
If you want to include your own module, write a script like this:

import sys
sys.path.append(r'/home/tom/py/mymodule')
from mymodule import FatCalculator
def calculateFat(n):
    return FatCalculator.run(n)

This assumes that you have a folder called /home/tom/py/mymodule and
in it a file called
FatCalculator.py with a function in it called run().

For more advanced usage than this I strongly recommend that you write
a Python Product.

> Thanks for any help.
>
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