Adding paths to sys.path permanently, and another problem...
Amir Dekel
adekel at ort.org.il
Thu Dec 16 16:29:36 EST 2004
Jeff Shannon wrote:
>
> Not only can one modify the environment variable PYTHONPATH, but one can
> also use a .pth file. Under windows, when the interpreter starts up it
> will search its default sys.path for any files with extension .pth; if
> it finds any, then it will use each line of those files as a directory
> to add to sys.path. Thus, if you drop a mymodule.pth file in
> site-packages, which contains a list of the directories you're
> interested in, sys.path will automatically be amended for you every time
> Python starts.
>
Works great! So simple, yet people get so confused...
Do you have a solution for my other problem?
Thanks,
Amir
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