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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:22:45 -0400
Subject: Re: python package confusion
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Lipska the Kat <lipska@lipskathekat.com> wrote:
> The PYTHONPATH ev is set to /home/lipska/python/dev/mods:.
> in .bashrc

Did you export it? Show us your .bashrc, or the relevant line in it
exactly. (And make sure that it isn't defined multiple times).

Also adding . to the import search path is probably a bad diea.

> lipska@ubuntu:~/python/dev/mods$ test.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./test.py", line 5, in <module>
>     fib(1000)
> NameError: name 'fib' is not defined

Neither of the files you described in your email message contain the
line "fib(1000)", so you pasted the wrong files.

> I also have an empty file __init__.py in the mods directory

This only matters if you want to "import mods".

-- Devin