Simple Path issues

[Brett Ritter]

On Jul 26, 2:57 pm, Gary Josack <g... at byoteki.com> wrote:
> sys.path is a list that will tell you where python is looking. You can
> append to this in your scripts to have python look in a specific
> directory for your own modules.

I can, but that is almost certainly not the standard way to develop a
module.

I see nothing in sys.path that I have write permissions to.

Is altering my PYTHONPATH the normal way to develop (under the
assumption that later users will install in their conventional python
search path)?