How do I add permanently to Pythons sys.path?

[Python]

On 16 sep 2008, at 17:13, cnb wrote:

>>>> sys.path
> ['C:\\Python25\\Progs\\NatLangProc', 'C:\\Python25\\Lib\\idlelib',  
> 'C:\
> \Windows\\system32\\python25.zip', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\
> \orange', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\orange\\OrangeWidgets',
> 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\orange\\OrangeCanvas', 'C:\
> \Python25\\DLLs', 'C:\\Python25\\lib', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\plat-win',
> 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python25', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-
> packages', 'C:\\Python25\\lib\\site-packages\\Numeric', 'C:\\Python25\
> \lib\\site-packages\\PIL']
>>>>
>
> Now I have my personal programs in C:/Python25/Progs/
>
> How do I add so that I can just do "import somefile" from anywhere in
> that directory in the interpreter and it can load files from other
> folders in that directory.
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>
>
a temp solution is to append it to that list:

sys.path.append('C:/Python25/Progs/')

a permanent solution is to add it to the environment variable
(no idea where to set this in windows)
$PYTHONPATH = "/C:/Python25/Progs/"

gr
Arno