Import a module from a directory (Python)

gistfile1.py

"""When you want to import a python file but that file is not in the same directory as the python file you're importing from (e.g. it's in a subdir). You need to add the directory that contains the file you want to import to your path environment variable sys.path. sys.path contains all the places python will look for a file when you do an import."""

import sys
sys.path.append('./markdown-1.7')
from markdown import Markdown