from __future__ import absolute_import from os.path import dirname, join, isfile, expanduser path1 = join(dirname(__file__), 'movies.db') path2 = expanduser('~/.bokeh/data/movies.db') movie_path = path1 if isfile(path1) else path2 if not isfile(movie_path): raise RuntimeError('Use bokeh.sampledata.download to get the movies data.')