Default path for importing plugins

[Ian Soboroff]

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm working on a plugin, and for some reason, beancount isn't looking under the current directory for plugins.  I have things like so:

data.beancount

tools/

   __init__.py

   payroll.py

data.beancount contains the line 'plugin "payroll" ""' up near the top.

If I run 'bean-check data.beancount', I get the error "Error importing "payroll": No module named 'payroll'".  If I invoke bean-check with PYTHONPATH=. preceding it on the command line, it works. But the current directory is always on the PYTHONPATH, at least, that's what the docs say.  Is beancount doing something overly clever here?

Ian

[Jason Chu]

The module you just created is tools.payroll.  Given that PYTHONPATH includes the current directory, you have to go into the tools module to reference payroll.

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[Ian Soboroff]

I'm sorry, I made a mistake.  The plugin line does say "tools.payroll", not "payroll".

[Jason Chu]

This is the code that loads plugins: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/de8cf9a6a85c8da674bcf934e80c0a9c416edc83/beancount/loader.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#loader.py-508

Not only does the module have to be in the path, it also has to be listed in module.__plugins__: https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/de8cf9a6a85c8da674bcf934e80c0a9c416edc83/beancount/plugins/check_commodity.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#check_commodity.py-15

Since you're creating a new plugin, my guess is that you never successfully got it to work because you are missing the __plugins__ var.

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