I want to import my custom-written functions in any script on any directory, just like I import the requests modules in any script. I am running Ubuntu and Python 3.9
Edit: I fulfilled my requirements by following this tutorial - https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/
You can add the folder to python path, or import sys, add path to this sesion and then import
import sys
sys.path.append(Path_to_module)
import module
or
import sys
sys.path.append(Path_to_module)
from module import function_names
/home/user/anaconda3/envs/my_environment/lib/python3.8/site-packages So tecnically if you add your library there you could import it, but I think it's not a good idea to do that. you might add you library path permanently to pythonpath. What's your OS ?You could make a simple package of your custom functions and then just install the package in your system locally using pip. After this you will be able to import the functions from any script.
# for example
pip install .
# or if you need to edit your functions install in editable mode
pip install -e .
Note: the dot '.' above indicates that your setup.py is located in the current working directory. You can also provide the path to the setup.py for your package instead of the dot. Reference on creating package: How to write a Python module/package?
Given your_function inside your_script.py in the same directory of your current code, you can write on your code:
from your_script import your_function
your_script.py in any directory. Just add sys.path.append(r'directory_path') in the program which imports the function or the class. Import using import 'your_script' without the extension py. You can use any form of import (import ... as ..., from ... import ..., etc). Path to directory can be absolute or relative.
from your_module import *or (function name)import sys sys.path.append('/path/to/application/app/folder') from module import function_names- like @Ulises Bussi said.