file / module / package - import problem

[EuGeNe Van den Bulke]

Hi there,

I have a "problem" which could be a bad design on my behalf but I am not
sure so ...

I have a package WMI which contains a module hauteur.py which, when
imported, load data from a file located in WMI/data/. In hauteur.py I
call open('data/hauteur.yaml').

test.py
WMI/
hauteur.py
data/
hauteur.yaml
lot.py

It works well when hauteur is imported in lot.py but if I try import
WMI.hauteur in test.py it doesn't work because it looks for the
hauteur.yaml file in the "wrong" place.

Is there a way to tell a module in a package to look for a file in a
specific place i.e. a within package location?

Thanks,

EuGeNe -- http://www.3kwa.com

 

[aspineux]

The filename and its path is in global variable __file__ (that is
different in any source file)

try

import os.path

file=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'hauteur.yaml'))

 

[EuGeNe Van den Bulke]

import os.path

file=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'hauteur.yaml'))

Thanks that worked