dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu writes:

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:

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OK, the question is this. The interpreter can be educated as to what modules are loaded (i.e. if pythonstartup imports math, you can type math.pi in the interpreter and be understood). Is there a way to get this to happen in the IDE's interpreter as well? If sitecustomize.py imports math I can't seem to access that at the >>> prompt.

Yes, it's possible. If we add the following fragment to our sitecustomize.py:

### import math import __builtin__ __builtin__.math = math del math ###

then the math module will magically turn on for all new interactive sessions. Pretty convenient! *grin* At least, this works from a regular interpreter window; I'm not quite so sure if this will work with all IDE's.

OK...I got my homework for the weekend: figure out how this is working. It works like a charm! On the mac's IDE both the interactive console and new scripts automatically can access math without an explicit import once the lines suggested above have been put into the sitecustomize.py script. Thanks, Danny. Have a nice wekend. /c