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mcintyre321
mcintyre321

Reputation: 13306

Dynamic module import doesn't work in python - why not?

I'm trying to dynamically import a python script foo.py into another executable script, which is in a deeply nested folder. I'm using 

import os
sys.path.insert(0, '../../../../.') 
from foo import Bar

this works, and I can use Bar happily.

I would like to make the script dynamically determine the folder depth e.g.

import os
root_path = os.path.relpath(os.popen("git rev-parse --show-toplevel").read()).replace("../reponame", ".")
print(root_path) # prints '../../../../.'
sys.path.insert(0, root_path)
from foo import Bar

However this doesn't work, the script complains it can't find Bar when it is run.

Why is this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 56

Answers (1)

Guy
Guy

Reputation: 50864

If you debug you see root_path is actually '../../../../.\n'. Remove the \n

root_path.strip()

Upvotes: 2

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