Question

Assuming my directory structure is:

C:\Scripts\myscript.py
C:\Scripts\customjson\json.py

The myscript.py python script has at the top:

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), 'customjson'))
import json

The thing is, I have a “customjson” folder that contains a json.py that I want to use instead of the default json package that Python 2.7 comes with. How do I make it so that the script uses “customjson” instead of the standard json?

Answer 1

Try to insert your customjson directory first in sys.path:

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), 'customjson'))
import json