[Django]-Import modules that are above project root

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I can see two clean solutions.

  1. For this to work, your lib has to be Distutils compatible (have a setup.py) file. If it does, then you can simply install it with pip with the e- flag. Just do:

    pip install -e /full/path/to/foo.com/lib/

    That will install the library in editable mode, meaning that the lib will not be installed to site-packages but will create an egg symlink there. That means that any changes you will make to the files within the lib will automatically go live within your environment.

  2. I don’t think this is as nearly as clean as the first suggestion by this will work. Just add the lib to the PATH in your Django’s manage.py:

    import os, sys
root_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '..', '..'))
lib_path = os.path.join(root_path, 'lib')
sys.path.insert(0, lib_path)
# ...
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