> but why is everybody alwasy talking about the "environment variable > PYTHONPATH" ??
Because that variable can be used to additionally customize the search path. But that doesn't imply that it is _all_ there is about python search paths - and it would be pretty crappy if it was, because you can have different installations of python on one machine, and having one PYTHONPATH alone would break them, making just one run properly. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
