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I am very new to python, about one month, and am trying to figure out how the importing works in python. I was told that I can import any 'module' that has Python code in it. So I am trying to import a module just to try it out, but I keep getting an 'ImportError: No module named redue'. This is an example of the python shell:

>>> import os >>> os.chdir('C:\Users\Cube\Documents\Python') >>> for file in os.listdir(os.getcwd()): print file pronounce.py pronounce.pyc readwrite.py rectangle.py reduc.py >>> import reduc Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#32>", line 1, in <module> import reduc ImportError: No module named reduc

What am I doing wrong? I am I overlooking something, or was I just wrongly informed?

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These files are not on sys.path. It should have been though.

If you want to access them from the interpreter, you will need to add the location to sys.path

>>> import sys >>> print sys.path >>> sys.path.append('C:\\Users\\Cube\\Documents\\Python') >>> import reduc

You could also include the path in environment variable - PYTHONPATH

See the details on module search path here :

Also look at (PYTHONPATH) environment variable details here:

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Isn't the current working directory usually in the search path?
@sth: It should have worked! It is difficult to check out why. So I just wanted to ensure that it is on sys.path and if there are other errors than we could follow up.

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