Op Saturday 23 May 2015 15:25 CEST schreef Peter Otten: > Cecil Westerhof wrote: > >> Op Saturday 23 May 2015 11:12 CEST schreef Mark Lawrence: >> >>> On 22/05/2015 06:20, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >>>> I am looking into using ipython instead of bash. But when I call >>>> a python program from ipython PYTHONPATH is not set. So >>>> pythonscripts that need a module through PYTHONPATH will not >>>> work. >>>> >>>> I could do something like: >>>> !PYTHONPATH=~/Python/PythonLibrary python2 … >>>> >>>> But I find that a little bit cumbersome. Is there a better way to >>>> do it? >>>> >>> >>> What makes you think this? Have you tried:- >>> >>>>>> import os >>>>>> os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] >>> 'C:\\Users\\Mark\\Documents\\Cash\\Python;C: > \\Users\\Mark\\Documents\\MyPython' >>> >>> That might be from the command line interpreter but it also works >>> the same from iPython for me on Windows 8.1. >> >> That does not change anything. The modules are not found. Also not >> when using %run. > > > That may be because ~ is not expanded. > > Try > > os.environ["PYTHONPATH"] = > os.path.expanduser("~/Python/PythonLibary")
That is not the problem: os.environ['PYTHONPATH'] gives: .:/home/cecil/Python' As I interpret it is that the very handy shell variable is not used in ipython. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list