Permanently Adding A Directory to Pythonpath

[Alex Martelli]

"Bengt Richter" <bokr at accessone.com> wrote in message
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> Well, sys.path already has methods by its nature as a [] thingy,
> so why not just use those? What you'd need is a module that
> got imported by the main on startup.  Being a pythonewbie,
> I'm not sure something like that doesn't already exist ;-)

Yes, it's site.py in the lib directory.  In turn, it imports
sitecustomize, so you can do your tweaks there.


> E.g., what if starting the interpreter would automatically
> import, e.g., config.py it it existed in the PYTHONHOME
> directory? That would seem pretty extendable and flexible.
>
> Maybe whatever is reading .PTH files is it? Is it defined
> in a user-modifiable place?

I wouldn't suggest changing site.py (the one that's
reading the .pth files), but tweaks in sitecustomize.py
should work just as well.


Alex