On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:02:36 -0500, John Guenther wrote: > This is Mac related. I am running snow leopard. I am using Python 2.6.3. > > I had a lot of difficulty figuring out how to add a directory to > sys.path that would be there every time I launched Idle. [...]
For a comprehensive discussion of how to modify sys.path, see http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path If you really just need to modify sys.path for one particular user, what I would do is add the line export PYTHONSTARTUP="/home/my_user/python/startup.py" to my .bashrc. Then, in the file /home/my_user/python/startup.py, include the following code: import sys sys.path.append ("/home/my_user/some_dir") This will add the directory /home/my_user/some_dir to sys.path every time you start up Python. The reason I like using PYTHONSTARTUP is that you can do other sorts of customizations in that file, as well. For example, I hate not having any way to clear the screen when I'm typing at the Python prompt, so I added this code to my $PYTHONSTARTUP file: import os def clear(): os.system ('clear') Hope that all helps! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
