python: help defining/installing simple script to setup machine-specific information
- by Jason S
(This is related to scons but I think most of the following should be fairly general to python)
I would like to define a python file/library that I put in a Well-Known Place somewhere on my computer that I can use to define machine-specific paths, and was looking for help on how to do this well, since I'm a beginner to Python & really only use it for my scons work.
scons uses a SConstruct file which can execute python code. What I would like to do is something like this:
My SConstruct file would contain this at the beginning:
defaultEnv = JJJJJ.getMachineSpecificPaths()
or (do both of these syntaxes work?)
import JJJJJ
defaultEnv = getMachineSpecificPaths()
I define a JJJJJ.py file somewhere installed in the python dir which contains the following
def getMachineSpecificPaths():
... does something here, I don't know what ...
that reads a file machine-specific-paths.txt (maybe it has the code Ross Rogers mentioned in my other question) located in the same directory as JJJJJ.py containing the following:
machine-specific-paths.txt
TI_C28_ROOT C:/appl/ti/ccs/?4.1.1/ccsv4/tools/co?mpiler/c2000
JSDB c:/bin/jsdb/jsdb.exe
PYTHON_PATH c:/appl/python/2.6.4
The thing is, I don't really know much about the conventions in Python about where you put system-wide libraries and files. This is probably really simple to get right but I don't know how.
