[Tutor] PYTHONPATH environment variable

[Magnus Lycka]

At 20:51 2002-11-02 -0800, Lance wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I added a directory to the end of my PYTHONPATH environment variable
>(running on Windoze XP). When print sys.path, the added directory is not at
>the end.

Of course. If you add something to PYTHONPATH you want
to be certain that this is really run. Then you want it
first in sys.path. Otherwise it would be impossible to
use PYTHONPATH to override default behaviour.

>Instead the Python installation directory is at the end. My
>understanding is that Python looks for files in PYTHONPATH order. How can I
>put something at the end and ensure it will truly be at the end?

import sys
sys.path.append(directory)


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