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Bogdan
Bogdan

Reputation: 8246

create own python link

So I'm in the following situation. I have a package generated with py2app. This has it's own structure and my projects sources are located in:

/dist.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/my_project

Now this works fine, however I want to give the possibility that developers add their own code where they want. So going trough all those folders every time seems rather ugly. So I was thinking I could try and (if possible):

1. Get the my_project folder at the top level, next to dist.app
2. Create only a link in the lib folder similar to what distutils `python setup.py develop` does.

But I'm rather stuck here. So far what I attempted was (from the unpackaged project):

Do a python setup.py develop of my project. Go to python's site-packages and copy the my_project.egg-link generated there into the above mentioned place. Edit it , as it's just a path to the actual project accordingly.

Copy the my_project.egg-info that is generated next to the my_project folder.

This however doesn't seem to work. I also tried the easiest solution I could and create a MacOS alias of the folder which doesn't work either.

Any suggestions?

Regards, Bogdan

Upvotes: 0

Views: 157

Answers (1)

Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson

Reputation: 10846

Are you talking about creating a plugin system for your app? The usual way to do this is have a directory somewhere that is designated the "plugins" directory - any folders in there are loaded as plugins. You could either hardcode this path or make it configurable using the application ui or a configuration file.

You can manipulate the Python path at runtime in your app to include the plugins directory. The path is available as a read/write list at sys.path or you can use site.addsitedir.

Upvotes: 1

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