Importing module from outside of the current directory

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Importing module from outside of the current directory - Annie - Mar-17-2017

Hi guys,

If I'm in say /home/a
and I want to import a module name "file.h" in /home/b/c/d
I tried :

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/home/b/c/d')

but when I did

import file.h

It still says no module named file.h,even though file.h is indeed in the /home/b/c/d directory ?

What did I miss?

Oh, I should add that this file is not a python file, is it possible to do this ?

RE: Importing module from outside of the current directory - snippsat - Mar-17-2017

sys.path search for files with suffix .py only.

Quote:Oh, I should add that this file is not a python file, is it possible to do this ?

You most explain what you trying do eg "i want call/run C code from Python".
Suffix .h is a header file for C.

RE: Importing module from outside of the current directory - Annie - Mar-19-2017

Thank you, yeah, of course it's not possible...directly. There is something I didn't set up correctly.

RE: Importing module from outside of the current directory - metulburr - Mar-19-2017

What are you storing in file.h? If its just constant values you should use something like JSON or similar.

If you really need to create a C extension you should check out a tutorial to do so
https://python-forum.io/Thread-Creating-C-extensions-Part-1

RE: Importing module from outside of the current directory - Annie - Mar-21-2017

Thank you, I believe that is a program.
I think there is a way to set up that in the package I'm using.