Re: [gpsd-users] using the python gps module without scons install

[shouldbe q931]

Hi Rob

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:06 PM Rob Shinn <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Excuse me for butting in, but to illustrate why you're getting
>
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "gps.py", line 23, in <module>
>      from .client import *
>
> I'll just show you this:
>
>  address@hidden:/mnt/c/Users/rshinn/source$ git clone
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gpsd.git/ gpsd
>  Cloning into 'gpsd'...
>  remote: Counting objects: 61957, done.
>  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (21723/21723), done.
>  remote: Total 61957 (delta 40211), reused 61957 (delta 40211)
>  Receiving objects: 100% (61957/61957), 110.80 MiB | 10.77 MiB/s, done.
>  Resolving deltas: 100% (40211/40211), done.
>  Checking connectivity... done.
>  address@hidden:/mnt/c/Users/rshinn/source$ cd gpsd
>  address@hidden:/mnt/c/Users/rshinn/source/gpsd$ python -c "import gps"
>  address@hidden:/mnt/c/Users/rshinn/source/gpsd$ cd gps
>  address@hidden:/mnt/c/Users/rshinn/source/gpsd/gps$ python -c "import gps"
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "gps.py", line 23, in <module>
>      from .client import *
>  ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
>
> That should help you adjust your PYTHONPATH. :)
>

I looked at the above for over half a dozen times before I realised
that there was no error when the command was run in gpsd/ rather than
gpsd/gps/

My presumption about making a newbie mistake would appear to be correct (-:

If I can ask a followup question, I had taken
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path
where it says "When a module named spam is imported, the interpreter
first searches for a built-in module with that name. If not found, it
then searches for a file named spam.py in a list of directories given
by the variable sys.path" is waf/python also searching for a matching
directory name, or is there something else in the gpsd directory that
it is using ?

Cheers

Arne