It’s time to start using modules in my AoC code. Unfortunately the AoC repo structure wasn’t created with Python in mind, restructuring it is waiting for now.

Repo layout

Currently the layout of my AoC code looks something like this:

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advent-of-code
    2015
        Day01
            p1-and-p2.py
        Day02
            p1.py
            p2.py
        Day03
    2016
        Day01
        Day02
        Day03
    trite_lib
        common.py

AoC code organized by Year/Day/Part seems to work overall, but this structure doesn’t lend itself well to Python’s module/package system.

Solution?

For now the solution I’ve gone with is appending the root of the AoC repo to sys.path before attempting imports:

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from os.path import dirname, realpath
import sys
sys.path.append(dirname(dirname(dirname(realpath(__file__)))))
from trite_lib import common

Several lines required for 1 import, and the sys.path.append line makes me really sad, but it’ll work for now at least.

Links/References

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html