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How to import locally-made libs in Python

NOTE likely not completely accurate (will update at some point – short on time atm.)

You will want to have a shell wrapper script that containts the following. Where /path/to/script is the path too your python script(s)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/script

in the python script that wants to use a local python library put

import getopt, sys
sys.path.append("/folder/containing/local-python-lib")

neat way to parse and assign variables inside a shell script

while getopts 'p:o:' arg;
do
    case $arg in
        p)
            OPTION="$OPTARG";;
        o)
            OUTPUT="$OPTARG";;
    esac
done

shift $(($OPTIND-1))

# ...
  
#example usage: <script name> -p <option> -o <output name>