Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.85.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; '__name__': 0.07; 'main()': 0.07; 'valueerror:': 0.07; '__future__': 0.09; 'elegant,': 0.09; 'imported': 0.09; 'imports': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'script,': 0.09; 'subject:module': 0.09; 'advance': 0.10; 'def': 0.10; "'__main__':": 0.16; 'funcname': 0.16; 'main():': 0.16; 'parameter,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:run': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'import': 0.21; 'example': 0.23; 'this:': 0.23; 'second': 0.24; 'command': 0.24; 'script': 0.24; 'allows': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; '???': 0.27; 'module.': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'run': 0.28; 'attempted': 0.29; 'complain': 0.29; 'idea,': 0.29; 'mode.': 0.29; 'probably': 0.29; 'relative': 0.30; 'basic': 0.30; 'function': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'hi,': 0.33; 'thanks': 0.34; 'path': 0.35; 'skip:. 20': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'alone': 0.36; 'modules': 0.36; 'subject:with': 0.36; 'test': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'end': 0.40; 'stand': 0.61; 'helps': 0.63; 'tricks': 0.65; 'gelonida': 0.84; 'ideas.': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: how to run python2.6 module with absolute imports stand alone Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:13:02 +0100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-18-75.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120907-0, 07/09/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 52 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1347063112 news.xs4all.nl 6859 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57425 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:28712 On 07/09/2012 23:04, Gelonida N wrote: > Hi, > > many of my modules contain following section at the end > > > def main(): > do_something() > if __name__ == '__main__': > main() > > This allows me to run some basic example code > or some small test in a stand alone mode. > > > My new modules contain following line at the beginning: > > from __future__ import absolute_import > > > I like this: > - It can reduce import name conflicts > - and second it allows 'relative' imports like > from .othermodule import funcname > from ..mod_one_level_higher import fdfsd > > > However If I try to run such a script from the command line it will now > complain with > > ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package > > Any tricks to work around this ??? > > The only idea, that I have is to have a script, that would take my > modulename or path name as parameter, and try to import it and then call > the main function of the imported module. > > > Not very elegant, but probably functional. > > Thanks in advance for any other suggestions / ideas. > I hope this helps http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3616952/how-to-properly-use-relative-or-absolute-imports-in-python-modules -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.