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cvoep28
cvoep28

Reputation: 423

Problems with file directories in Python

According to the readlink -f command in my terminal, the file that I'm currently in has the path /home/pi/example.py

The module I am trying to import into this file has the path /home/pi/ReactiveEngine/src/PiEngine.py

I have the following statements in my example.py file: 

import os
os.chdir('/home/pi/ReactiveEngine/src/')
import PiEngine

But it's telling me that there's no module named PiEngine even though there clearly is. Am I doing something wrong or what could be giving me this error?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (2)

DexJ
DexJ

Reputation: 1264

you can add to the Python path at runtime using sys.path.insert()

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/home/pi/ReactiveEngine/src')
import PiEngine

Upvotes: 0

Codie CodeMonkey
Codie CodeMonkey

Reputation: 7946

The variable sys.path determines where files are imported from. So I think you're looking for something like:

import sys
sys.path.append('/home/pi/ReactiveEngine/src/')
import PiEngine

Upvotes: 2

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