simple pythonpath query

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"Tim Golden" <tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote in message 
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| [marc.wyburn at googlemail.com]
|
|| I've downloaded the hypertext module and put it in the
| c:\python24\lib
|| folder.  I would have thought that since the lib directory is in the
|| Pythonpath,I would be able to import python scripts from
|| C:\Python24\Lib\HyperText.  I also tried including
|| C:\Python24\Lib\HyperText to
|| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.4\PythonPath but no
|| joy.  Am I missing something very simple here?  Thanks, Marc
|
| I take it that's Andy Dustman's HyperText package? One thing
| to bear in mind (given that you haven't said what happened
| when you tried) is that the package itself offers little --
| ie if you do "import HyperText" you won't get much; you
| need to do something like "from HyperText import HTML".
|
| That said, I have it installed under site-packages
| (ie c:\python24\lib\site-packages) which is more designed
| for external modules/packages. The lib directory itself
| is rather for Python-supplied modules.
|
| Not sure if that all helps, but if you want to offer
| a traceback or error message, we might see some more.
|
| TJG
|

Hello,

How is installation of modules done? Is it just copying files to 
\lib\site-packages directory or is there something centralized db 
involved?
This is for self made libs, of course.

Can I use any directory if just update path or some python specific env 
var?