> Dan Stromberg wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Catherine Moroney >> <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >>> >>> In what order does python import modules on a Linux system? I have a >>> package that is both installed in /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages, >>> and a newer version of the same module in a working directory. >>> >>> I want to import the version from the working directory, but when I >>> print module.__file__ in the interpreter after importing the module, >>> I get the version that's in site-packages. >>> >>> I've played with the PYTHONPATH environmental variable by setting it >>> to just the path of the working directory, but when I import the module >>> I still pick up the version in site-packages. >>> >>> /usr/lib64 is in my PATH variable, but doesn't appear anywhere else. I >>> don't want to remove /usr/lib64 from my PATH because that will break >>> a lot of stuff. >>> >>> Can I force python to import from my PYTHONPATH first, before looking >>> in the system directory? >>> >> Please import sys and inspect sys.path; this defines the search path >> for imports. >> >> By looking at sys.path, you can see where in the search order your >> $PYTHONPATH is going. >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Catherine Moroney <catherine.m.moro...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > I've looked at my sys.path variable and I see that it has > a whole bunch of site-package directories, followed by the > contents of my $PYTHONPATH variable, followed by a list of > misc site-package variables (see below). <snip> > But, I'm curious as to where the first bunch of 'site-package' > entries come from. The > /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/pyhdfeos-1.0_r57_58-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg > is not present in any of my environmental variables yet it shows up > as one of the first entries in sys.path.
You probably have a .pth file somewhere that adds it (since it's an egg, probably site-packages/easy-install.pth). See http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
