I had always assumed that the first entry in sys.path by default was the current working directory. But as it turns out, on my system the first entry is the path on which the script resides. So if I'm executing a script that's in /usr/bin from /some/directory, the first entry in sys.path is /usr/bin. Is something misconfigured on my s...
On a Red hat box, I upgraded Python from 2.3 to 2.6.4 and changed the symlink to python so when I type in python the 2.6.4 interpreter comes up. However my .py file works from the command-line, but not in the browser. It seemed like a sys.path issue so I opened the file in a browser and printed out sys.path. Surprisingly, my sys.path i...
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 a typical directory structure: Project setup.py package __init__.py lib.py script.py In script.py, we need...
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.yaml). This doesn't seem to work, because when I try to import modules that live in subdir, my app explodes. ...