How does Python (or MonkeyRunner) locate imported modules?

Question

Update: Following @dtmilano's suggestion, I added

import sys
print(sys.path)

to the beginning of my MonkeyRunner script. This results in

['e:/path/android-sdk/tools/lib/monkeyrunner.jar:e:\\path\\bbct\\android\\functional-tests', 'E:\\path\\android-sdk\\tools\\lib\\Lib', '/E:/path/android-sdk/tools/lib/jython-standalone-2.5.3.jar/Lib', '__classpath__', '__pyclasspath__/']

At first glance I thought this included the current working directory. However, a closer inspection showed that the output is a list of strings where the first string is

'e:/path/android-sdk/tools/lib/monkeyrunner.jar:e:\\path\\bbct\\android\\functional-tests'

For some reason this contains two paths concatenated together. Is this a bug in MonekyRunner and/or Jython?

Original Question: I have two .py files in the same directory: screenshots.py and util.py. I need to run screenshots.py with the monkeyrunner interpreter from the Android build tools. When I run monkeyrunner screenshots.py, I get error No module named util. How do I configure my python and/or monkeyrunner to find the code in util.py?

Edit: I am using Git Bash on Win7. (Oops, I probably should have mentioned this earlier.)

For reference, this is the complete error message:

130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions] Script terminated due to an exception
130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\Dell\Documents\dev\src\java\bbct\android\functional-tests\screenshots.py", line 19, in
import util
ImportError: No module named util

130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.Py.ImportError(Py.java:264)
130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.imp.import_first(imp.java:657) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.imp.import_name(imp.java:741) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.imp.importName(imp.java:791) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.ImportFunction.call(_builtin_.java:1236) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.PyObject.call(PyObject.java:367) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.builtin._import_(builtin.java:1207) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.builtin._import_(builtin.java:1190) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.imp.importOne(imp.java:802) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.pycode._pyx0.f$0(c:\Users\Dell\Documents\dev\src\java\bbct\android\functional-tests\screenshots.py:51) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.pycode._pyx0.call_function(c:\Users\Dell\Documents\dev\src\java\bbct\android\functional-tests\screenshots.py) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.PyTableCode.call(PyTableCode.java:165) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.PyCode.call(PyCode.java:18) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.Py.runCode(Py.java:1197) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.core.builtin.execfile_flags(builtin.java:538) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at org.python.util.PythonInterpreter.execfile(PythonInterpreter.java:156) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at com.android.monkeyrunner.ScriptRunner.run(ScriptRunner.java:116) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerStarter.run(MonkeyRunnerStarter.java:77) 130807 12:01:59.978:S [main] [com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerOptions]
at com.android.monkeyrunner.MonkeyRunnerStarter.main(MonkeyRunnerStarter.java:189)

Answer 1

For your reference, the android SDK does appear to have a bug in it where the first item on sys.path is the monkeyRunner lib and the working directory mashed together. I added the following to fix.

import sys
sys.path.append(sys.path[0].split(':',1)[1])
import util

Answer 2

You need to add the module to the search path (you are cwd is not in the same dir?)

http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html

import sys sys.path.append('/path/to/your/module')

Answer 3

The directory where the script is located is automatically added to sys.path by monkeyrunner (and this works pretty well for other OSs, unfortunately it seems you are using one where it doesn't). Then other modules present in the same directory of the script can be imported without problems.

That is, screenshots.py should find utils.py because the directory functional-tests is in sys.path.

You can verify its content by doing

import sys
print sys.path
import util

in screenshots.py. My guess is that all those c:\ are messing with the path.