I keep seeing sites mentioning that the directory that you execute 'python ' get added to the python path. For example on http://www.stereoplex.com/blog/understanding-imports-and-pythonpath, the author cd's to the /tmp folder then does 'print(sys.path)' and lo and behold, the /tmp folder appears in the path list. Here is me trying this out on my system (with 2.6.6 installed):
example structure:
app/
mymodule.py
inner_folder/
myscript.py
in myscript.py contains the line:
import 'mymodule.py'
what i did:
cd app
python inner_folder/myscript.py # ImportError
Since I am executing the interpreter from the app/ directory, shouldn't 'app' be put onto the python path? This is how a lot of the docs I have been reading have specified the behaviour should be.
Please enlighten!
(I have temporarily solved this by manually adding the folder I want into the environment but don't want to rely on that forever. Since many sites say this can be done, I'd like to reproduce it for myself)