"james collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
home directory in a folder which i called python, my IDLE does not
recognize the script which i am trying to import, here is a sample
session in my IDLE:
You need to set PYTHONPATH not PATH
PATH tells the OS where to find executables like python
PYTHONPATH tells Python where to find modules to import
one solution i was told about which worked was to type in the
following code when i start my IDLE:
import sys
sys.path.append( "/users/jamescollins/python/" )
Thats fine as a temporary measure but you would need to do
it in every script. As you discovered!
"Or you can modify python path by setting PYTHONPATH env variable.
In
bash shell:
$ export PYTHONPATH=.:$HOME/python:$PYTHONPATH
Note this says "in the bash shell"
The $ at the beginning is the conventional way of describing
prompt displayed by bash. You do not type it in.
$ export PYTHONPATH=.:$HOME/python:$PYTHONPATH
but when i went into my python IDLE i got error messages to the
extent
that my IDLE couldn't find the scripts i was trying to import. one
thing i will mention is that i added the above line exactly as it is
written above.
Enter the line in your profile as:
export PYTHONPATH=.:$HOME/python:$PYTHONPATH
Which tells Python to look for modules in the current directory(the
dot),
in the python folder of your home directory ($HOME/python) and in
whatever folders were already set up ($PYTHONPATH)
The 'export' simply makes the setting visible outside of the
profile script.
HTH,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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