Den 19.02.2012 18:44, skrev Guido van Rossum:

I may be taking this out of context, but I have a really hard time understanding what you were trying to say. What does it mean for a complaint to be simple? Did you leave out a word in haste? (I know that happens a lot to me.

Sorry for the rude language. I ment I think  it is a problem that does not belong in the standard library, but perhaps in a cookbook. It is ~20 lines of trivial code with objects already in the standard library. Well, one could say the same thing about a queue too (it's just deque and a lock), but it is very useful and commonly used, so there is a difference.

Sturla




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I often find this in my scripts/projects, that I run directly from
checkout:

DEVPATH =os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
sys.path.insert(0,DEVPATH)

You shouldn’t have to do that if you’re running 'python something.py'

As initialized upon program startup, the first item of this list,
path[0], is the directory containing the script that was used to
invoke the Python interpreter. If the script directory is not
available (e.g. if the interpreter is invoked interactively or if the
script is read from standard input), path[0] is the empty string,
which directs Python to search modules in the current directory
first.

http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/sys.html#sys.path

The trick is to place the script in the directory that you want in the path, ie. next to top-level packages. But from your code above this seems to be the case already...