On Oct 11, 8:00 am, "mhearne808[insert-at-sign-here]gmail[insert-dot- here]com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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']
You need to export the environment variable. export PYTHONPATH Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
