You learn something new every day: On my ubuntu, update-manager is supposed to use the python2.5 installed on /usr/bin. Well, I had subsequently installed a whole bunch of stuff in /usr/local (/usr/local/bin/python and /usr/local/lib/ python2.5 etc), which I have happily been using for development for a year. I had thought that the two pythons were completely independent.
Well, I was wrong. When /usr/bin/python2.5 runs, *by default*, it adds /usr/local/lib/python2.5 to its sys path - and apparently there are things in /usr/local which are inconsistent with those at /usr (not suprising). I have fixed the problem - but I had to modify the actual update- manager .py file itself. At the beginning, I set the sys.path in python *explicitly* to not include the /usr/local stuff. But this is clearly a kludge. My question: how do I keep the Ubuntu python stuff at /usr/bin/python2.5 from adding /usr/local/lib/ python2.5 to the import search path in a clean and global way? I really want both pythons completely isolated from one another! Thankyou. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
