Re: Newbie thwarted by sys.path on Vista

"Mark Lawrence" wrote in message news:mailman.4130.1249203322.8015.python-l...@python.org... Be careful, I'm screwed things up on several occasions by placing a file on PYTHONPATH that overrides a file in the standard library, test.py being my favourite! Thanks. Sure enough, I've already got

Re: Newbie thwarted by sys.path on Vista

"Dave Angel" wrote in message news:mailman.4120.1249172970.8015.python-l...@python.org... Michael M Mason wrote: I'm running Python 3.1 on Vista and I can't figure out how to add my own directory to sys.path. Thanks to Jon, Piet, David and Dave for the responses.

Newbie thwarted by sys.path on Vista

I'm running Python 3.1 on Vista and I can't figure out how to add my own directory to sys.path. The docs suggest that I can either add it to the PYTHONPATH environment variable or to the PythonPath key in the registry. However, PYTHONPATH doesn't exist, and updating the registry key has no e