changing sys.path

Fri Feb 3 00:10:12 EST 2012

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>So suppose I want to modify the sys.path on the fly before running some code
>which imports from one of the modules added.
>>at run time I do
>sys.path.extend(paths_to_add)
>>but it still doesn't work and I get an import error.

Are you actually adding multiple paths? One possible cause for error would
be this:
 sys.path.extend( '/usr/local/lib' )
That succeeds, but it doesn't do what you meant. It adds "/" as a path,
then "u", then "s", then "r", and so on.
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