Re: ob-python: import local package into a session

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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I usually do that by either having the py file in the working directory of
the session, in which case you simply import it.

Alternatively something like this in python:

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/dir/with/myfile.py')
import myfile

you could also append to sys.path if that matters.

John

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:49 AM Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If I have an Org file with Python source blocks, I can run them in a
> session
> with the `:session` header arg. That way, I can include packages installed
> in
> `site-packages` and have them available in all code blocks. But is there a
> way
> to import my own packages into a session? In particular, packages I haven't
> installed system-wide?
>
> What I'm trying to do is to import a Python file with a bunch of utility
> functions into the ob-python session. I thought this might be possible if
> I'd
> structure my code as a regular Python package, because that works if I
> want to
> import my utility functions into another Python file. But it doesn't seem
> to
> work for the ob-python session.
>
> Is there a way to achieve this? I don't *have* to structure my utility
> functions
> as a Python package, so if there's another way of doing this, I'd be
> interested
> as well.
>
> TIA
>
> Joost
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>
>

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