If you start Python from command line you can just use usual bash methods put
PYTHONPATH= xxx in ~/.profile or for use in a single shell export PYTHONPATH=xxx If you start Python from a dbl-clickable application you need to get the PYTHONPATH into the application's environment See http://mactip.blogspot.com/2004/04/setting-environment-variables.html Hope this helps, michael On 16 Feb 2010, at 15:46, John [H2O] wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm not a Mac user, but I'm a promoter of Python! I have a good friend using > a Mac who's becoming sceptical of python due to frustrations with the > PYTHONPATH. I'm trying to help... > > Everything is fine running vanilla python. Importing modules works fine. But > in ipython, the module paths need to be appended individually. I can't even > set a module directory into which ipython will look recursively for modules. > > There is nothing custom set in .ipython/ipythonrc or ipy_user_conf.py > > The PYTHONPATH variable doesn't need to be set using vanilla python. The > path settings are set somehow, however (I can see this from import sys; > sys.path). I'm not sure where this is all happening. > > Any ideas on the best way to set the PYTHONPATH for a mac? > > Thanks! > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/ipython%2C-PYTHONPATH%2C-on-a-MAC-tp27610302p27610302.html > Sent from the Python - tutor mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > Professor Michael Fourman FBCS CITP Director, iDEA lab Informatics Forum 10 Crichton Street Edinburgh EH8 9AB http://idea.ed.ac.uk/ twitter @iDEAatEd For diary appointments contact : mdunlop2(at)ed-dot-ac-dot-uk +44 131 650 2690 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
