Said obscure dialog is here: My Computer > Properties > Advanced (tab) > Environment Variables
You probably want a new system variable. You can check the value by starting a new terminal window and typing: echo %PYTHONPATH% Cheers Tombo Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Dr. Pastor wrote: > > > Several Documents about Python > > refer to PYTHONPATH. > > I could not find such variable. > > (Python 2.4.2, IDLE 1.1.2, Windows XP) > > How should/could I nominate a Directory to be > > the local Directory? > > Thanks for any guidance. > > It's a so called environment-variable. You can set these in some obscure > windows dialog in the system-preferences on a per-system or per-user base. > Or you start using cygwin (lots of good other reasons for that), and do > > export PYTHONPATH=/whatever > > Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list