[Tutor] Trouble with sys.path.append

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:35:38 am aug dawg wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Earlier today, I tried to add a folder to my PYTHONPATH. When I tried
> sys.path.app('location/of/folder'), the command successfully executed
> it, but then when I did sys.path to check to see if it was now in my
> PYTHONPATH, it was not there. Does anyone know what might be causing
> this?

Modifying sys.path doesn't update PYTHONPATH. If you modify sys.path, 
the changes disappear when you exit and re-enter and the unmodified 
PYTHONPATH is read.


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Steven D'Aprano