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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. 1) Ensure you have a blank __init__.py file in subdir . 2) Use a full path; something like this: import os import sys sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'subdir')) Edit: providing more info to answer questions asked in a comment. As Nick Johnson demonstrates you can place

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, sys ROOT_DIRECTORY = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../..')) if not sys.path or ROOT_DIRECTORY not in sys.path: sys.path.insert(0, ROOT_DIRECTORY) # These imports are required for unittest to find test modules in package properly from root.tests import test_1 root/tests/test_1.py import unittest from root.classes import Class1 class Tests(unittest.TestCase): pass root/_ init _.py -

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, my-library will be part of sys.path for as long as the session is active. If I start a new file, I have to remember to include sys.path.append again. I feel like there must be a much better way of doing this. How can I make my-library available to every python script on my windows machine without having to use sys.path.append each time? Simply add this path to your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To do

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 of numpy 1.8.0 installed at /local/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ . The reason I cannot simply remove the old version is that I do not have permissions to change anything on my work computer. I however need to use the new numpy version. I have added /local/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ to my PYTHONPATH . Unfortunately, this does not help, since /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages is inserted

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 ran the following in IPython. import sys sys.path sys.path.append('/path/to/the/example_file.py') print(sys.path) I could see the path I had just added, and when I tried to import this file from another directory path like this: import example_file it worked just fine, but once I came out of IPython, entered it again, and checked the sys.path , I saw that the path which I had added was not present