I don't want to have to modify the path in each and every application. There has to be a way to do this...
Personally, I don't agree with the Debian maintainers in the order they import anyway; it should be simple for me to overshadow system packagers. But that's another story. P.S. my first name is Steven! Cheers, Chris On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Sean DiZazzo<half.ital...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
