Do bash (ou outro shell), você pode manipular o $ PYTHONPATH para apontar para o diretório pai, por exemplo, echo $PYTHONPATH
e export PYTHONPATH="/newhome/django_x.x/trunk"
Isso irá prefixar os caminhos dados à lista de caminhos existentes do python.
For example, if PYTHONPATH is set to
/www/python:/opt/py
, the search path will begin with['/www/python','/opt/py']
(Note that directories must exist in order to be added to sys.path; the site module removes paths that don’t exist.)
Dentro do python, você também pode alterar o sys.path ( import sys
se você não tiver) para apontar para o ramo de teste.
Exemplo de python.org :
$ python
Python 2.2 (#11, Oct 3 2002, 13:31:27)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-112)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.3', '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages']
>>>
Para adicionar um caminho, use algo como:
sys.path.append('/workingdir/python/')
Um exemplo centrado no Django de djangotricks (blog):
import os, sys
SVN_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", ".."))
DJANGO_PATH = os.path.join(SVN_PATH, "django_src", "trunk")
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.join(SVN_PATH, "myproject", "trunk")
sys.path += [DJANGO_PATH, PROJECT_PATH]
Além disso, a menos que você tenha suprimido o comportamento, o python carrega site.py
na execução. Assim, você também pode editar o arquivo site.py
, por exemplo, /usr/lib/python2.7/site.py
:
Os comentários do arquivo site.py
também são instrutivos.
$ more /usr/lib/python2.7/site.py
"""Append module search paths for third-party packages to sys.path. **************************************************************** * This module is automatically imported during initialization. * **************************************************************** In earlier versions of Python (up to 1.5a3), scripts or modules that needed to use site-specific modules would place ''import site'' somewhere near the top of their code. Because of the automatic import, this is no longer necessary (but code that does it still works). This will append site-specific paths to the module search path. On Unix (including Mac OSX), it starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and appends lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python. On other platforms (such as Windows), it tries each of the prefixes directly, as well as with lib/site-packages appended. The resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and also inspected for path configuration files. For Debian and derivatives, this sys.path is augmented with directories for packages distributed within the distribution. Local addons go into /usr/local/lib/python<version>/dist-packages, Debian addons install into /usr/{lib,share}/python<version>/dist-packages. /usr/lib/python<version>/site-packages is not used. A path configuration file is a file whose name has the form <package>.pth; its contents are additional directories (one per line) to be added to sys.path. Non-existing directories (or non-directories) are never added to sys.path; no directory is added to sys.path more than once. Blank lines and lines beginning with '#' are skipped. Lines starting with 'import' are executed. For example, suppose sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to /usr/local and there is a directory /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages with three subdirectories, foo, bar and spam, and two path configuration files, foo.pth and bar.pth. Assume foo.pth contains the following: # foo package configuration foo bar bletch and bar.pth contains: # bar package configuration bar Then the following directories are added to sys.path, in this order: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bar /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/foo Note that bletch is omitted because it doesn't exist; bar precedes foo because bar.pth comes alphabetically before foo.pth; and spam is omitted because it is not mentioned in either path configuration file. After these path manipulations, an attempt is made to import a module named sitecustomize, which can perform arbitrary additional site-specific customizations. If this import fails with an ImportError exception, it is silently ignored.
Referências:
caminho de pesquisa python.org docs, v2.7
python.org docs, caminho de pesquisa da v3
Djangotricks blog, uma observação sobre caminhos python
Martin Jansen: Arquivos de configurações do Django para desenvolvimento e produção