[Pythonmac-SIG] Yet another problem with path

[Pascal Bompard]

The fix I have working for this now is to use a symbolic link to the  
directory where I keep my scripts.

Not quite as clean as just using the script name, but certainly better  
than typing out a long direct path.


> I see what you are saying. It didn't occur to me that Python would  
> not use any of those variables, not even $PYTHONPATH. Thank you for  
> pointing that out.
>
> I suppose the next best strategy should be to look into using a  
> terminal shortcut to at least make the "cd" to the directory a bit  
> less painful.
>
>> I guess I'm confused. There are only two ways to run a script: with  
>> the absolute path to the script, or with a relative path (from the  
>> same directory as the script, or with the path to the script in  
>> another directory in the same path hierarchy, i.e. "python foo/ 
>> myscript.py," in a subdirectory called foo).
>>
>> All the variables you have set--$PATH, etc.-- help Terminal know  
>> where Python is. They do not help Python know where your script is.
>
>>> Yes, I am aware that I could do that. I chose to only demonstrate  
>>> the full path method rather than both ways to access the file in  
>>> my example.
>>> The problem remains though, that every time I want to run a script  
>>> in that directory, I'd have to type out the entire path, which is  
>>> not ideal.
>>> Surely there must be a work around to allow me to only type in the  
>>> script name, at least I assume there must be?