Seb <splu...@gmail.com> writes: > It seems too cumbersome to have to update `sys.path` to include the > development tree of a package (and sub-packages) that's still very > young. With lots of debugging to do, the last thing I'd want is to > worry about the search path. So I've been searching for better ways to > work, but I can't seem hit the right keywords and come with all sorts of > tangentially related stuff. I'm sure there must be some tool that sets > up the development environment when the package source is not on > `sys.path`. Any advice on this topic would be appreciated.
On "*nix" like systems, you can set "sys.path" via the envvar "PYTHONPATH". Note that "sys.path" needs only contain the top level packages - subpackages are found automatically. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list