Try detect local libs about importanize HOT 8 CLOSED

Perhaps this is too naive but what about just testing if 'site-packages' is in module.__path__.split(os.pathsep)?

EDIT: Nevermind, I think I see what you're suggesting. In other words, for importize to properly detect local packages, the users pwd will need to be the project root? And/or you can set the project root by command-line?

I'm used to developing in an environment where I've done pip install -e . on my project so it's importable anywhere, but the files don't live in site-packages. However I don't know if my usage is that popular. Besides, if I can set the project root directory as a command-line flag to importanize it's super easy to just make that an alias for each project or something along those lines.

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This is not an easy problem to solve reliably. I think unlimately config should be used to reliably detect which libs are local because that allows to fine-tune which configs go in which order. That being said, at some point I do want to implement some sort of heuristic to try to detect at least some scenarios automatically.

As for the site-packages, I dont think this is particularly reliable because even some stdlibs are not in site-packages.

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If it's not possible to automatically detect the local package, one alternative might be to allow them to be listed in the configuration file, and/or on the command line.

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@kgaughan specifying it in config is the current behavior. the idea of this ticket is to try to determine that automatically. not sure how more complex configs can be added via command line so I think it should remain configuration based or automatically generate the config if proper heuristic can be determined

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I think a built-in "site-packages" group (similar to "stdlib" group) would be useful, even if not automatic.

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hmm. interesting idea. I usually use remainder and list local libs explicitly but the reverse actually makes sense.

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See #34

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closing since site-packages is already merged and released

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