Re: [Pyunit-interest] error: can't open file <filename.py>

[Steve P. <ste...@ya...>]

Srikanth Mandava wrote:
> 
> 	I'm running from a shell script after setting the PYTHONPATH. I get
> a "can't open file <filename.py' "error even though the file is in the
> PYTHONPATH. Any help is appreciated.

Hi Srikanth,

This type of question is probably best sent to the general python mailing
list (see 'python-list' at http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo).

My guess, though, is that your shell script contains something like:

   export PYTHONPATH=/some/directory
   python filename.py

and that 'filename.py' is in '/some/directory'. Then, you are running the
script from a different directory, and expecting that python will
find 'filename.py' using 'PYTHONPATH'.

This won't work, because Python doesn't use 'PYTHONPATH' to find
scripts passed on the command-line; it only uses 'PYTHONPATH' to find
modules loaded after the main script has started to run.

Probably a better solution for you is simply:

   python /some/directory/filename.py

Best of luck,

-Steve
  

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