Question

To add the directory to my python path, I went into the command line, did “open -e .bash_profile”, which opened it up in TextEdit. I then added the directory which I just created called “coltrane”, so the bash file looked like this after edit:

Then I went into the python interactive session and did “import sys” and “print sys.path” to test if the edit was successful. It gave me this:

As you can see, the directory “coltrane” is the first path on sys.path. But then I tried to import “coltrane” and it doesn’t recognize it:

Any idea why this is happening? Did I write it the wrong way in .bash_profile?

thnx

Answer 1

You added the coltrane directory to the path, and I assume that’s the module you want to import (that is, you have an __init__.py in that directory to make the directory itself a module). But you want to add the directory that contains the module you want to import, i.e., djangoprojects, to your path, because the PYTHONPATH tells Python what directories to look in for modules.