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Hi does anyone have an example of moderately complex project with packages and functions?

<https://github.com/mitodl/ol-infrastructure/tree/main/src/ol_infrastructure>

That's... really interesting. Now I know what you were referring to yesterday <@UCWG26BH7>. So you don't have any problems importing things from `src/ol-infrastructure/components/`  and `src/ol-infrastructure/lib/` ?

If you've the time, could you take a look and tell me what I'm doing wrong here then: <https://github.com/followben/pulumi-example>

AFAIK my setup is identical, yet I get errors when running pulumi if the project imports modules or packages from outside the project directory.

this isn't my setup, it's just a setup I'm familiar with from the community

I suspect the import works because the entire project is a module. So they `poetry install` the entire repo insto a virtualenv, then run `pulumi -C src/.../ up` from within the virtualenv, which means components are imported properly (via the installed package). That might actually be the solution to our woes as well.

Got it. Thanks <@U01S92M6HSL>. We don't use poetry, but guess we could achieve the same with setup.py and pip, but I'd really rather avoid all of that given we don't actually _need_ to package it.

<@U01Q16JJSF3> I wonder if modifying the site and using `.pth` file would help
<https://pymotw.com/3/site/index.html>

But installing the "app" into the VENV is a common solution as well

Oh nice... at the moment we're just doing `sys.path.append(repo_dir)` before we import

I guess we could modify the site in our pulumi automation script, but the imports would still fail when using the CLI locally.

And I think the explicit append in the file is a more obvious workaround than either installing the app to venv or adding a sitecustomize.py + .pth file.

I think we'll throw a simple setup.py together and just `python setup.py install` it in our pipelines - should be pretty low effort yet "clean"