Manually loaded configuration script leads to a weird path behavior

Question

I've created a small command line utility. I would like to let users customize the behavior of the command by setting the path to a python script, however when I load this script using:

import imp
my_script = imp.load_source('script', script_path)

However the import within the script are not working anymore, what was working before now fails with No module named lib

import mycommand.lib as my_lib

Here is the structures of my files:

mycommand/
    __init__.py
    command.py
    lib/
        __init__.py
external_script/
    __init__.py
    script.py

I do my tests typing:

python mycommand/command.py external_script/script.py

I hope I'm clear enough. I'm running Python 2.7.

Answer 1

imp.load_source() first argument is the name you want the script to be imported as, in your case it's being called 'script'. Probably will work if you change 'script' to 'mycommand'?