How to add a Python import path using a .pth file

Question

If I put a *.pth file in site-packages it\'s giving an ImportError. I\'m not getting how to import by creating a *.pth file.

(Refers to importing in

Answer 1

/tmp/$ mkdir test; cd test
/tmp/test/$ mkdir foo; mkdir bar
/tmp/test/$ echo -e "foo\nbar" > foobar.pth
/tmp/test/$ cd ..
/tmp/$ python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb  3 2009, 20:52:03)
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import site, sys
>>> site.addsitedir('test')
>>> sys.path[-3:]
['/tmp/test', '/tmp/test/foo', '/tmp/test/bar']

Answer 2

If you put a .pth file in the site-packages directory containing a path, python searches this path for imports. So I have a sth.pth file there that simply contains:

K:\Source\Python\lib

In that directory there are some normal Python modules:

logger.py
fstools.py
...

This allows to directly import these modules from other scripts:

import logger

log = logger.Log()
...