Runing script about gprmax

[craig-warren]

Hi Eleger,

gprMax was designed to be used as a Python package (with according use of imports) - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#packages

[ELEGER]

Hi Craig,
Thanks for your answer,
Could I propose a sudo python setup.py develop ?
Or it is too dirty to be proposed to users?

Modifying pythonpath and sys.path can as well do the job, but is less automatic or dirtier I'd say.

cheers

emmanuel

[craig-warren]

I'm not so keen for those solutions. Are they not against the 'zen' of Python ;-)

What might be better is to see if absolute imports would allow you to run it as a script, i.e. change
from .constants import e0 to from gprMax.constants import e0.

[craig-warren]

Emmanuel,

I'm going to update everything to use absolute imports, e.g. from gprMax.constants import e0 in the next few days. I think that because gprMax is designed to operate as a package it has to be run using the -m switch, so you can't easily run the main module as a script. I think if users want to do this then we'll leave it to them ;-) therefore I'm going to close this issue.