[Pythonmac-SIG] environment.plist (was: fixing the PATH environment variable for 2.3)

[Russell E Owen]

ka wrote:

>To simplify using the "right" Python (aka 2.3a1 not Apple's 2.2), I added
>/usr/local/bin back to the PATH environment variable, by adding PATH to my
>~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file...
>
>I also created a simple .cshrc, since environment.plist doesn't seem to be
>getting picked up in the Terminal...(as 
>per)...<http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/AquaEnvVar.html>...

Did you log out and log back in again after editing 
environment.plist? That is certainly necessary. After that, I would 
expect environment variables in environment.plist to show up in 
Terminal. They certainly do on my system. I define PYTHONPATH, 
PYTHONSTARTUP and PYTHONDOCS in environment.plist and nowhere else 
and they show up fine in Terminal (they are listed by the "env" 
command and they are seen by the command-line version of Python).

If this is not the case for others, I'd certainly like to know about 
it (especially if anybody has an explanation). I wrote the html page 
in question and would like to correct any false information. But I'm 
having trouble imagining why it would work fine for me and not others.

-- Russell