[vsipl++] [patch] Source configuration for package.py

[Stefan Seefeld]

Jules Bergmann wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Is there (and there must be, it is python!) a good way to include one
>>> configure file from another?
>>
>> from other_config import *
> 
> If the file "other_config" is has a full path "a/b/c/other_config", and
> that path is stored in a variable cfg_path, how would you write this
> statement?  Would this work:
> 
>     from '%s/other_config'%cfg_path import *

No. I would add cfg_path to the module search path:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, cfg_path)
from other_config import *

(One has to be careful not to pick up other unwanted python modules
that happen to lie in the cfg_path directory, of course.)

Regards,
		Stefan

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