Automatically add to sys.path

[dschep]

Maybe there's a way to avoid having to add the import requirements to your Python files...

[tonycapone]

Agree. This plugin is great in theory but having to modify every file in my code to support it is undesirable.

[tonycapone]

@dschep why not put the python dependencies in the project root where they would normally be?

[dschep]

@tonycapone that just seems too messy, and there'd be no way to easily git ignore all of them. But yeah. that certainly would take care of it.

[dschep]

Also, it would be incompatible with #4 😢

[tonycapone]

@dschep Yeah that's true, although that messiness is a problem in all Python Aws Lambda projects.

FWIW here's my workaround that mitigated most of the pain:

Put all source code into a local package. Put the Lambda handler file in the project root, and import the package from the handler file. Then you only have to put import requirements in the handler file.