On Oct 10, 4:59 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Thanks all - I'm recently back to using Unix (Mac) after 5 years of being on a PC. I guess I thought export was just another way of doing assignment. My bad. --Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
