Hi all, As a fairly new linux user running ubuntu 5.10 I'd had problems persistently setting my PYTHONPATH environment variable. bruno and Edward got me most of the way (thanks!); I'm posting what worked for future googling.
bruno at modulix said unto the world upon 20/04/06 08:38 AM: >>Can anyone help me to make my path persistant? > > > Just like any other environnement variable on your system. With most > distros, it will be something like adding the line: > > export PYTHONPATH="/a/possible/path;/another/one;/and/a/third" > > either in /etc/profile (will be system-wide default) or ~/.bash_profile > (will be user-specific). and Edward Elliott said unto the world upon 23/04/06 07:56 PM: > Brian van den Broek wrote: <snip> >>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> > "When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, bash > reads and executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if > these files exist." > So, to get the terminal ubuntu launches when you click on the panel's terminal icon to have a customized PYTHONPATH, one must, as Edward said, modify ~/.bashrc or link it with ~/.bash_profile. The syntax that worked for me was *almost* what bruno suggested. It didn't work here until I used ':' rather than bruno's ';' as the path element separator. So, the lines PYTHONPATH="/home/brian/FirstDir:/home/brian/SecondDir" export PYTHONPATH added to ~.bashrc make the terminal launched from the panel icon include /home/brian/FirstDir and /home/brian/SecondDir right after pwd in sys.path as desired. Thanks Edward and bruno! Best, Brian vdB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
