I implemented this context manager for importing modules from arbitrary directories.

Good? Bad? - Keen to get thogutsthoughts:

Implementation

import sys 

class CustomPath:
    def __init__(self, path:str):
        self.original_path = sys.path
        self.custom_path = path 
        
    def __enter__(self):
        sys.path.insert(0, self.custom_path)
        
    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
        sys.path = self.original_path

Usage

Consider this directory structure:

 - project1
    |- notebooks/
         |- notebook1.ipynb
 - project2
 - ...
 - project5/
    |-somefiles/
          |- common_utils.py

I can run this in the notebook1.ipynb and it works:

with CustomPath('../../project5/somefiles/'):
   from common_utils import connect_to_db