Newbie question (I'm just getting started with Python and Pydev):
I've created a project "Playground" with (standard?) src/root sub-folder. In there I've created example.py.
How do I import my "example" module into Pydev's interactive console? ">>> import example" gives: "ImportError: No module named example"
I found the answer on the Plone website: Setting up PYTHONPATH in Eclipse project. This provides a convenient way to set PYTHONPATH on a per project basis. In my case I added "/Playground/src/root" to the Source Folders list. ">>> import example" then worked. (I'm still surprised project files aren't imported by default, though.)
Thank you jldupont for pointing me in the right direction (re. PYTHONPATH)!
Following the PYTHONPATH advice above, I used a bit of a hack to get this working. If I understand your question, you want to have the current working directory in the IPython environment set to the directory in which your active file resides. So if you are editing D:/projects/file.py, you want the pwd() command (in IPython) to return D:/projects. This is where the hacked together part of my solution comes from. All my projects are on my D drive, but all the normal python imports come from the install location on my C drive. So the following:
os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.pathsep)
results in a list on which only one path is on the D drive, and that path (from the answers above) is of my active file's directory. If you don't use the D drive, then there should be some other unique way of identifying which of the paths in that list pertains to your projects. If there isn't a way of uniquely identifying your project path, then this answer doesn't work. But in the simple case of "D:/" being enough of a unique identifier, this is my startup code in the settings (Window > Preferences > PyDev > Interactive Console)
import sys; print('%s %s' % (sys.executable or sys.platform, sys.version))
import os;os.chdir([p for p in os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.pathsep) if p.startswith("D")][0])
pwd()
