Hello all,
I have a couple of questions related to module importing.
1) When I start my Python program with `python foo.py` instead of simply
adding a interpreter comment on the first line and do `./foo.py`, some
"local" imports fails, I guess because current working directory is
different. Is CWD the only difference between running `python foo.py` and
`./foo.py`? What is the recommended way? (I guess security is one aspect that
can be argued)
2) I use Python modules which are not usually installed(libxm l2/libxslt) and
want to fail gracefully in case the modules aren't available; print an
informative message. Since these imports are done in several related
programs, I don't want to duplicate the code, but instead centralize it. The
problem is that when I put the module imports/exception code in a function,
it is as if it wasn't imported, even though there was no exceptions. I
suspect this is because the import is only done into the current namespace:
the function scope(instead of file scope as I want). Is there any solution to
my problem? Or should I solve it in another way?
3) And the last -- but funniest -- import problem: sometimes imports of
modules in "xml." fails, sometimes it works. For example, this code:
from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplement ation
impl = getDOMImpmentat ion() #NameError: name 'getDOMImpmenta tion' is not
defined
fails as shown, and other times it works. When running pydoc as local web
server, it also sometimes fails, although I haven't been able to reproduce
for a error message. I have recent versions of PyXML and 4suite installed.
What is wrong? Any idea what that could be wrong with my setup, which could
cause this?
Cheers,
Frans 1 1620
Frans Englich wrote: Hello all,
I have a couple of questions related to module importing.
1) When I start my Python program with `python foo.py` instead of simply adding a interpreter comment on the first line and do `./foo.py`, some "local" imports fails, I guess because current working directory is different. Is CWD the only difference between running `python foo.py` and `./foo.py`? What is the recommended way? (I guess security is one aspect that can be argued)
You should post the exact error message together with a snippet of the
code around the error. One possibility is that the "shebang" line
(#!...) in your script is invoking a different Python than when you
enter "python" and the shell locates it on your path. 2) I use Python modules which are not usually installed(libxm l2/libxslt) and want to fail gracefully in case the modules aren't available; print an informative message. Since these imports are done in several related programs, I don't want to duplicate the code, but instead centralize it. The problem is that when I put the module imports/exception code in a function, it is as if it wasn't imported, even though there was no exceptions. I suspect this is because the import is only done into the current namespace: the function scope(instead of file scope as I want). Is there any solution to my problem? Or should I solve it in another way?
Craig Ringer has already answered this question.
3) And the last -- but funniest -- import problem: sometimes imports of modules in "xml." fails, sometimes it works. For example, this code: from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplement ation impl = getDOMImpmentat ion() #NameError: name 'getDOMImpmenta tion' is not defined
fails as shown, and other times it works. When running pydoc as local web server, it also sometimes fails, although I haven't been able to reproduce for a error message. I have recent versions of PyXML and 4suite installed.
What is wrong? Any idea what that could be wrong with my setup, which could cause this?
Again you should post a little more detail. In your example it looks
like you made a simple spelling error: getDOMImpmentat ion instead of
getDOMImplement ation.
regards
Steve
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