Add folders with subfolders with path manager

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From spacego...@gmail.com on 2014-10-26T06:02:34Z

Spyder Version: 2.3.0rc
Python Version: 2.7.7
Qt Version : 4.8.6, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.10.4 on Windows
pyflakes >=0.5.0: 0.8.1 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : 1.5.6 (OK)
IPython >=0.13 : 2.1.0 (OK)
pygments >=1.6 : 1.6 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.2.2 (OK)
psutil >=0.3 : 2.1.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0: 1.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.0 : 0.7.5 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : None (NOK)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

In Matlab, user has an option to add folders with subfolders to the search path. Does Spyder has the same functionality?

Thanks!

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=2024

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-11-18T14:53:27Z

If you add a folder, you don't need to add subfolders to your path. The only thing you need to do is to add an empty init.py file to every subfolder. Then you can call modules in your subfolders just using import statements, like this

from folder.subfolder.subsubfolder import myfunction

I really don't know if it's a good for Spyder to add those files in behalf of the user.

Steven, what do you think?

Cc: steven.s...@gmail.com
Labels: MS-v2.4 Cat-SpyderGUI

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From steven.s...@gmail.com on 2014-11-19T04:04:20Z

I agree with your assessment Carlos. Adding nested folders to the Python path defeats the purpose of the Python package/subpackage system.

[goanpeca]

@ccordoba12, closing?

[ccordoba12]

Yep :-)