[Pythonmac-SIG] setting the default pathon path

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<9c2c8ffb1002221122i3b6f211etd67c82533f3c038b at mail.gmail.com>,
 Norman Khine <norman at khine.net> wrote:
>[...]how do i temporarily
> change my system so that the default python is  $HOME/bin/python
> 
> i have tried to change the symlink files, i also have in my .profile
> export PYTHON=$HOME/bin/python:$PYTHON

Have you tried putting that in .bash_profile instead?  If it still 
doesn't work, try modifying your PATH in .bash_profile:

   export PATH="$HOME/bin":$PATH

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org