[TIP] How do I get nose to add the cwd to sys.path?

[Daryl Spitzer]

That did the trick.  I went with:

from os.path import dirname, abspath
import sys
sys.path.append(dirname(dirname(abspath(__file__))))

Thanks.

But shouldn't that be unnecessary?

--
Daryl


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<gheorghe_gheorghiu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- On Thu, 11/13/08, Daryl Spitzer <daryl.spitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I run `nosetests` it finds the tests in the .py files
>> in tests/,
>> but I get an import error in the tests when they try to
>> import the
>> module they're testing (which is in the parent
>> directory of the tests
>> in "tests").  I've tried `nosetests -w .`
>> (and other variants) but I
>> get the same import errors.
>>
>
> I do that 'by hand'. In the __init__.py file in the tests directory I have these 2 lines:
>
> import os, sys
> sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..'))
>
> Grig
>