[Pythonmac-SIG] How to provide additions to python path such that all executions of a given python binary will see them?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 8:55 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote:

> Currently, I modify my python path through inclusion of a PYTHONPATH 
> variable
> in the .login file. However, I need to add a /local/python/packages 
> directory
> to the path in such a manner that all executions of the system python 
> binary
> see /local/python/packages. I was just wondering up the best (least 
> hacky)
> way of doing this might be.

Add a one line text file named "arbitraryuniquename.pth" to 
~/Library/Python/2.3/site-packages/ (or 
/Library/Python/2.3[/site-packages] if you want it to be system wide.  
Apple's version is with site-packages, the standard distribution is 
without) with the contents "/local/python/packages" sans quotes.

-bob
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