Hello all: I installed IPython on my XP machine today and find that my sys.path has been changed as follows:
>> import sys >> print sys.path ['', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\scripts', 'C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\python24.zip', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Daniel\\Desktop', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\DLLs', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\plat-win', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\PIL', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\wx-2.6-msw-ansi', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\reportlab_2_0', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python24\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython/Extensions', 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Daniel\\_ipython'] Obviously, IPython changed my sys.path and added an entry in the end as "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Daniel\\_ipython'" However, I cannot figure out how IPython can change my sys.path. I refer to all the following sources 1> http://www.python.org/doc/current/inst/search-path.html Installing Python Modules 2> KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.4\PythonPath 3> My machine has no environment variable "PYTHONPATH" 4> There is no *.pth file under C:\Program Files\Python24\Lib\site-packages that contains that information (i.e. C:\\Documents and Settings\\Daniel\\_ipython) So how dos IPython modify my sys.path without trace??? Thank you very much! -Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
