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> People have a script run with python, and want to use code in other files. This is not supported in python. Come again? This is what "import" does, obviously

• rocqua 5y ago
  I missed one detail. The files and the script are in the same folder. I say script here because the apparent intention is that scripts and modules are separate. That is why it's not easy to import functions from a file in the same directory as a script. This restriction is very unexpected. And it is not borne out well by the fact that it is not obvious this distinction exists.
  • formerly_proven 5y ago
    When you run a script, the directory containing it is on the path. You can just write "from somefile import something". What you can't do is "from .somefile import something" because it is not a package. When you run a module, the root package containing it is on the path by definition and imports work.
    • rocqua 5y ago
      I didn't know that. Does that still work if you call the script from a different directory (so `python bar/foo.py`)? Imma guess it doesn't work with symlinked scripts. But I don't think it should without doing an install, in which case a module does make sense.
      • formerly_proven 5y ago
        The directory containing the file is added to the path, and the named file is imported as the __main__ module. That's why "if __name__ == '__main__':" works in script files. I don't think Python will resolve symlinks here, so if that needs to work, you probably need to do it yourself before touching other code / files.