[Pythonmac-SIG] problems with sys.path

[Christopher Barker]

newbie73 wrote:
> placing a .pth file in /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages with code to insert
> my custom paths (including /library/python/2.5/site-packages) in the
> PYTHONPATH variable, yet they do not seem to appear.

Just to be clear -- this won't add anything to the PYTHONPATH 
environment variable. Rather, it adds them to sys.path, which is 
python's internal path for looking for modules:

 > import sys
 > print sys.path

-Chris





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