Re: Extending g-ir bindings

[David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 04:32:38PM +0300, Paul Colomiets wrote:
> If the only problem is the import. Than you can try:
> 
> import gi.overrides
> gi.overrrides.__path__.append('/path/to/your/modules')
> 
> Then `from gi.overrides import whatever` will search for the
> `/path/to/your/modules/whatever.py`.

Thanks, this at least makes importing possible.  To make it work
automatically, i.e. permit doing just

    from gi.repository import MyModule

provided that the modules are in path, gi/__init__.py needs to do
something like

    import gi.overrides, sys, os.path

    for pythondir in sys.path:
        odir = os.path.join(pythondir, 'gi', 'overrides')
        if odir not in gi.overrides.__path__:
            gi.overrides.__path__.append(os.path.join(pythondir, 'gi', 'overrides'))

But this is ugly on several levels, starting from fixing the search path
using the snapshot of sys.path in a specific instant.

Yeti