Eric Wichterich wrote:
Hello Pythonistas,
I am trying to get certain (self-written) libraries imported into my
scripts using statements like
"from library import function.py".
But they are not being found.
I think that the pythonpath-variable must be expanded to the location
to this libraries.
But, I can't find any usable information using Google on how to set up
the pythonpath properly.
I don't even know where to look for the pythonpath-variable?
It would be great if anyone could help me out on this?
You can define the environment variable PYTHONPATH to include any pathsI am trying to get certain (self-written) libraries imported into my
scripts using statements like
"from library import function.py".
But they are not being found.
I think that the pythonpath-variable must be expanded to the location
to this libraries.
But, I can't find any usable information using Google on how to set up
the pythonpath properly.
I don't even know where to look for the pythonpath-variable?
It would be great if anyone could help me out on this?
you like, and python will read this info when it starts up.
On MacOS X you have several choices for defining environment variables.
All work for unix command-line apps, but only can be seen by GUI apps,
so it's the one I recommend you use: put the information into a file
.MacOSX/environment.plist (which you will probably have to create).
Instructions are available at
<http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/AquaEnvVar.html>
If you only care about command-line usage then you can edit ~/.cshrc and
include a command such as
setenv PYTHONPATH "/path/one/:path/two:..."
(note: .cshrc may not be the best choice, but it certainly works).
Warning: do NOT mix these two techniques. At least in Jaguar,
environment.plist completely overrides env variables defined or modified
in .cshrc.
-- Russell
