Re: python startup files

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

I dunno about .pythonrc.py. The docs I read said to put startup code in
~/.python-startup.py and this is what I use successfully. In order to modify python's
search path from python code you just need to manipulate the sys.path list, eg.:

import sys

sys.path.append('path-to-append')

In order to augment the python search path from an environment variable just set
PYTHONPATH (colon-separated list just as the PATH variable). This is in the man page.
Did you read the fine manual?

Douglas Bates wrote:

> According to some python documentation I have read I should put
> commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into
> the file `~/.pythonrc.py'.  I have done that but these commands do not
> seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
> system with
> ||/ Name            Version        Description
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ii  python-base     1.5.1-7        An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
>
> Is there another convention for python startup with this package?
>
> Also, what is the recommended form for adding to the python search
> path?  I believe there is an environment variable to set.
>
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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