__author__ = 'fabrizio' import os, sys from AVCommon import config commonname = 'AVCommon' basedir = None avcommon = None avagent = None avmaster = None if not basedir: localdir = os.getcwd() parent = os.path.split(os.getcwd())[0] for d in [localdir, parent]: if commonname in os.listdir(d): basedir = d sys.path.append(d) avcommon = __import__("%s" % commonname) assert (avcommon) break assert basedir dir() .