[Pythonmac-SIG] Subject: Re: Help with path settings

Edward Hartley ed_hartley at mac.com
Wed Jan 30 12:44:25 CET 2008


Hi
> I guess I should leave the python 2.3 where it is
> There are quite a lot of places where environment variables can be  
> set.
>
> E.g. ~/.profile ~/.bashrc ~/.login ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login,  
> ~/.cshrc
> ~/.tcshrc
> /etc/csh.cshrc /etc/csh.login /etc/profile /etc/bashrc
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
>
> Well this is a very helpful list. First time I've seen them all at  
> once. Are there any more?
I agree,
> Turns out that /etc/profile actually listened to my request to:
> export PYTHONPATH=''
> where the others just ignored it.

Something to watch out for as well is system updates resetting these  
to their defaults.
Best Ed

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