I'm missing something major here. I'm trying to add a directory to my python path using the PYTHONPATH environment variable, and it's being ignored by the Python interactive shell.
Below is a capture of what I did. Note that my newfolder appears nowhere on the list of directories in sys.path. How do I get Python to pay attention to my shell variables? Using bash on OS X 10.4.10. %:~ user$ echo $PYTHONPATH %:~ user$ PYTHONPATH=/Users/user/newfolder %:~ user$ echo $PYTHONPATH /Users/user/newfolder %:~ user$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Aug 10 2007, 10:46:58) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ setuptools-0.7a1dev_r56320-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site- packages/ipython1-0.9alpha2-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site- packages/SQLAlchemy-0.4.0beta5-py2.5.egg', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/ site-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.2-py2.5-macosx-10.3-i386.egg', '/usr/ local/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5', '/usr/local/lib/ python2.5/plat-darwin', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-mac', '/usr/ local/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/usr/local/lib/ python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/ lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ PIL'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
