[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app: Packing my modules in site-packages.py

Fri Nov 7 22:05:36 CET 2008

Nirnimesh wrote:
> My 
> main script (/Users/nirnimesh/my_app/main.py) alters sys.path to make 
> the dependency modules importable (ie. sys.path.append('..'))

Ideally, avoid that. A better alternative is to install your own modules 
into the system with setuptools --develop option:
python setup.py develop
If you really do need to add to sys.path, then:
> Alternatively, if I alter sys.path in my setup.py script itself, can I 
> expect my dependency modules to get packaged in site-packages.zip?

yes, that should work -- but you'll probably not want to add that 
sys.path.append in your code -- you can check for the "sys.frozen" 
attribute to know if the code is running inside an app bundle or not.
-Chris
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