[Pythonmac-SIG] RE: problem importing python packages

[Jack Jansen]

On woensdag, sep 4, 2002, at 11:15 US/Pacific, Magladry, Stephen wrote:

> Problem solved I have a weird path problem.
>
> By dropping btest.py on PythonInterpreter the paths where setup 
> correctly.
> Using the PythonInterpreter and doing the import and the paths were
> incorrect. Now I get to figure out why my paths are incorrect.
>
Actually, the paths were correct in both cases, but maybe not what you 
expected:-).

If you run a script then the scripts' directory is in sys.path. If you 
don't run a script but an interactive interpreter then Python's home 
directory is in sys.path.