newbie - How do I import automatically?

[Mike Meyer]

bobueland at yahoo.com writes:

> I have written some functions in a file called btools.py. I would like
> to import them automatically when I start up Python shell. Today I must
> do it by hand like this
>
>>>> from btools import *
>>>> dir()
> ['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__', 'func1', 'func2', 'func3']
>>>>
>
> Is there a way to do this automatically so that I always have 'func1',
> 'func2' and so on available, without me having to do it by hand?

Set the PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable to the name of a python
file that does the "from btools import *".

     <mike
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