[yt-dev] Module search path in iyt

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Andrew Myers <atmyers at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I recently updated my yt installation, and I noticed that the current
> working directory no longer gets added to the module search path when
> running yt in interactive shell mode. So, if "StarParticles.py" is a file in
> my current working directory, I can't just type
>
> import StarParticles
>
> to import that code as a module. I fixed this in my installation by adding:
>
> import sys
> sys.path.insert(0, ' ')
>
> to the top of the bin/iyt script, but not sure what the right way to do this
> more generally is, so I just thought I'd bring this to people's attention.
>

You should also be able to get the same behavior by having "." in your
PYTHONPATH environment variable.  I can't remember if this behavior
was changed in yt, or with an updated virtualenv, or something, but I
do remember someone else bringing this up recently...

-Matt

> -Andrew Myers
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