Re: Python default search paths

2010-10-19 Thread Jed Smith
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:25:30 -0700, swapnil wrote: >> This is useful for embedding applications where it might be desired that >> only user-defined paths are searched for modules. > > I doubt that very much. I expect that many things will

Re: Python default search paths

2010-10-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:25:30 -0700, swapnil wrote: > Python allows adding user defined paths to the module search path by > setting PYTHONPATH environment variable. It also allows to alter the > location of standard python libraries using PYTHONHOME. But there is no > way to "only" have user defin

Python default search paths

2010-10-19 Thread swapnil
Python allows adding user defined paths to the module search path by setting PYTHONPATH environment variable. It also allows to alter the location of standard python libraries using PYTHONHOME. But there is no way to "only" have user defined paths to python's search paths (sys.path) This is useful