Okay, I solved my problem with Python finding modules: I put the following into a file in my home directory, on the good advice of Andrea Crotti:
import sys sys.path.append('/home/foo/mypath' I named the file "~/pypath.py", so now, in idle: import pypath No errors. I'm still getting a little frustrated loading modules. I typed the following little test function into idle: def intersect(seq1,seq2): res=[] for x in seq1: if x in seq2: res.append(x) return res intersect('spam','spmmer') No big deal. Runs fine. Exited and re-entered idle, import pypath import intersect #the name of a file that contains the above short function. intersect('spam','spmmer') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> intersect('spam','spmmer') TypeError: 'module' object is not callable >>> Huh? Why doesn't this run when imported? More importantly, how do I interpret this error message so that I can find the problem myself next time? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list