Edward Elliott said unto the world upon 23/04/06 07:56 PM: > Brian van den Broek wrote:
<snip> >>Only somewhat, as if I open a brand new shell: >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python >> >>> from sys import path >> >>> path[0:3] >>['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4'] > > > You realize this only prints the first 3 elements of path, right? Indeed :-) As the desired new path elements after running '. .bash_profile' were inserted starting at path[1], I did this to cut down on the size of the screen dump. > >>So, it seems that I currently have to invoke '. .bash_profile' >>manually with each new shell opened for this to have effect. > > > Your shell must not be opening as a login shell. From the bash man page: <snip'ed many helpful things> > When you do need ubuntu-specific help, you can try the > forums on > > http://ubuntuforums.org/ > > I don't think you'll need that for any Python-related questions though > (other than installing python packages with apt-get). Thanks again, Edward. If the information you've given me doesn't get me sorted out, I will try with the ubuntu folk. Best, Brian vdB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
