On 12/13/19 3:02 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
I'm not sure exactly what you're going for, but often you will have your main script in the top level, and then put common/library code in a package directory, with an (often empty) `__init__.py` file. Something like this:
- py - main.py - common - __init__.py - fun.py
If you lay it out like this, it "Just Works" out of the box with Geany's execute command for `main.py`, without messing with any path variables or anything.
If you want to leave it where `main.py` is in a directory that is a sibling of your common/library package, you will probably have to mess with paths and/or use some kind of relative imports.
I don't think your problem is with Geany as much as with trying to understand Python's quite complicated import mechanisms/rules/conventions.
Amen
Hope that helps.
Regards, Matthew Brush
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What I'm looking for is a way to structure multiple python applications that all make use of user defined functions (VFP jargon perhaps) stored in a python script (this is how I did it with multiple PHP apps).
I followed your suggestion and took the liberty of adding a second script, main1.py. *Both worked* even without __init__.py. * *
- py - main.py
- main1.py
- common - fun.py
But my problem is that main.py and main1.py really represent separate applications each with multiple files. The only way I know of organizing apps is to place their files in their own directory. So I tried
- py
- app1
- main1.py
- app2
- main2.py
- common - fun.py
Even though this seems to be the same structure as I started with, both main1.py and main2.py worked. So it appears Geany is now accepting /home/paul/py as being in the PYTHONPATH. Since common is downstream of that, it works.
Thank you.
PS: I'm sure this belongs in a separate thread; but I got cocky and tried an alarm clock program that I had written involving a tkinter GUI. It worked fine in Idle; but all I got from Geany was a terminal window telling me the exit code was 0. Using the ancient dicotomy of system vs. applcation programing, wouldn't it be fair to say all application programs are GUI?
Paul
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