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.

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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