Remove `sys.path.append` by running scripts as modules

[cbebe]

We can avoid having to call sys.path.append by running the script as a module in the root directory.

Example (EPS subsystem):

$ python -m EPS.eps_subsystem
Starting EPS subsystem on port 1801

I tried removing sys.path.append("../") from the script and it runs just fine.

I'm not sure if this would be the right approach, though, I would still need to see how the project would be structured inside the container.

[aureateAnatidae]

I admit that I don't have much experience with this codebase, but I've found in other projects that it's very convenient to put an __init__.py file in directories, so that we can treat them as packages. So,

$ pip install EPS/
$ uv add EPS/

would add them to a .venv. If we want to go further and import from EPS, we could make EPS a submodule:

EPS/
->__init__.py
->eps_subsystem.py

Create an empty __init__.py to mark that file as a submodule

EPS/__init__.py
# empty file

>>> from EPS import eps_subsystem
>>> eps_subsystem
<module 'EPS.eps_subsystem' from '/home/auAn/develop/ex3_simulated_subsystems/EPS/eps_subsystem.py'>
>>> eps_subsystem.EPSSubsystem()
<EPS.eps_subsystem.EPSSubsystem object at 0x7f3078185010>
>>> eps_subsystem.default_eps_state
{'EPSState': 'ON', 'Temperature': 32, 'Voltage': 5.24, 'Current': 1.32, 'BatteryState': 'Charging', 'WatchdogResetTime': 24.0}

If you like a cleaner solution:

EPS/__init__.py
from .eps_subsystem import EPSSubsystem
# Examples:
# https://github.com/alexandrebarachant/muse-lsl/blob/master/muselsl/__init__.py
# https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/main/numpy/random/__init__.py 

>>> import EPS
>>> EPS.EPSSubsystem()
<EPS.eps_subsystem.EPSSubsystem object at 0x7fe7cb5d4d70>
>>> EPS.default_eps_state
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-2>", line 1, in <module>
    EPS.default_eps_state
AttributeError: module 'EPS' has no attribute 'default_eps_state'

# The things that weren't explicitly imported aren't available when the module 'EPS' is imported.