On Aug 29, 5:39 pm, Chris Colbert <sccolb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm having an issue with sys.path on Ubuntu. I want some of my home > built packages to overshadow the system packages. Namely, I have built > numpy 1.3.0 from source with atlas support, and I need it to > overshadow the system numpy 1.2.1 which I had to drag along as a > dependency for other stuff. I have numpy 1.3.0 installed into > /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/. The issue is that this > directory is added to the path after the > /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ is added, so python doesnt see my > version of numpy. > > I have been combating this with a line in my .bashrc file: > > export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages > > So when I start python from the shell, everything works fine. > > Problems show up when python is not executed from the shell, and thus > the path variable is never exported. This can occur when I have > launcher in the gnome panel or i'm executing from within wing-ide. > > Is there a way to fix this so that the local dist-packages is added to > sys.path before the system directory ALWAYS? I can do this by editing > site.py but I think it's kind of bad form to do it this way. I feel > there has to be a way to do this without root privileges. > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > > Chris
I think you can modify sys.path inside your application. Maybe this will work (at the top of your script): import sys sys.path[0] = "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages" import numpy PS. Say hi to Steven for me! ~Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
