PYTHONPATH

[Brian van den Broek]

Edward Elliott said unto the world upon 23/04/06 07:56 PM:
> Brian van den Broek wrote:

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>>Only somewhat, as if I open a brand new shell:
>>
>>brian at Cedric:~$ python
>> >>> from sys import path
>> >>> path[0:3]
>>['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4']
> 
> 
> You realize this only prints the first 3 elements of path, right?

Indeed :-)  As the desired new path elements after running
'. .bash_profile' were inserted starting at path[1], I did this to cut 
down on the size of the screen dump.

> 
>>So, it seems that I currently have to invoke '. .bash_profile'
>>manually with each new shell opened for this to have effect. 
> 
> 
> Your shell must not be opening as a login shell.  From the bash man page:

<snip'ed many helpful things>

> When you do need ubuntu-specific help, you can try the 
> forums on
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/
> 
> I don't think you'll need that for any Python-related questions though 
> (other than installing python packages with apt-get).

Thanks again, Edward. If the information you've given me doesn't get 
me sorted out, I will try with the ubuntu folk.

Best,

Brian vdB