Set Pythonpath on NT/95/98 without Win32 extensions

Stefan Franke spamfranke at bigfoot.de
Fri May 14 15:46:29 EDT 1999


On 14 May 1999 13:17:06 -0400, Guido van Rossum <guido at cnri.reston.va.us> wrote:

>Actually, on Windows, the .pth file should be in the toplevel Python
>installation directory, typically C:\Program Files\Python\.

Yes, of course, I didn't remember correctly. Only sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix
are sought for .pth files (on Windows), not sys.path.

Mike, if you haven't done already, see 

    http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-site.html

for the whole story.

Stefan





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