On Feb 28, 11:24 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 28, 7:30 pm, per <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi all, > > > i recently installed a new version of a package using python setup.py > > install --prefix=/my/homedir on a system where i don't have root > > access. the old package still resides in /usr/lib/python2.5/site- > > packages/ and i cannot erase it. > > > i set my python path as follows in ~/.cshrc > > > setenv PYTHONPATH /path/to/newpackage > > > but whenever i go to python and import the module, the version in site- > > packages is loaded. how can i override this setting and make it so > > python loads the version of the package that's in my home dir? > > What happens when you run the command "print sys.path" from the Python > prompt? /path/to/newpackage should be the second item, and shoud be > listed in front of the site-packages dir. > > What happens when you run "print os.eviron['PYTHONPATH']" at the > Python interpreter? It's possible that the sysadmin installed a > script that removes PYTHONPATH environment variable before invoking > Python. What happens when you type "which python" at the csh prompt? > > What happens when you type "ls /path/to/newpackage" at your csh > prompt? Is the module you're trying to import there? > > You approach should work. These are just suggestions on how to > diagnose the problem; we can't really help you figure out what's wrong > without more information. > > Carl Banks
hi, i am setting it programmatically now, using: import sys sys.path = [....] sys.path now looks exactly like what it looked like before, except the second element is my directory. yet when i do import mymodule print mymodule.__version__ i still get the old version... any other ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
