On 5/14/2023 3:00 PM, Grizzy Adams via Python-list wrote:
Sunday, May 14, 2023 at 11:11, Mats Wichmann wrote:
Re: PythonPath / sys.path (at least in part)
[snip]
I have since moved up (a little) so only ~4 years old, I then updated pip from
9.x to 19.1
reason its an old version is it's an old PC (XpPro), if I start to get passable
at this I will try it on my Ubuntu box which is running 22.04 (latest LTS) and
23.04, (23.10 daily builds soon) I took a look and it seems I "may" have to
play a little to get IDLE on (if it's not in the normal repo's)
I seem to have managed to sort "PythonPath / sys.path" the environment variable
is working, so I can now import my_work without any other hassle, which is
good, now I find that some of the files which worked a treat from GUI, Editor
(F5) or terminal but don't do the same once saved and imported later, I'm sure
it's me, I have come from VB/VBA, Delphi and a (very) little C++, and am still
working through the python tutorial, trying not to skip ahead (ok I did skip
"Hello World" :->) so I may end up asking some (senior moment) newbie
questions, I will try hard to work it out myself first
Thanks to all who got me thus far
Good to hear you can run your program. For future reference, when you
talked about setting PYTHONPATH, it would have been helpful to know just
what you did when you tried to set it.
If you plan to use this directory location much of the time, two good
ways to do so are 1) putting that path in a .pth file in the
site-packages directory, or 2) launching Python using a batch file that
sets PYTHONPATH first, then runs Python. On Windows, in a batch file
you should use SETLOCAL before setting PYTHONPATH and ENDLOCAL at the
end of the batch file. That's the easiest way to remove the PYTHONPATH
variable after you are done with it.
You made a little slam against Windows, but you will find it harder to
get things working on Linux. Ubuntu, like many other Linux distros,
does not come with pip and Tk (needed for Idle) installed, and it's not
so obvious how to install them.
For your old computer, I added an external 1TB solid state drive (Note:
not a usb stick) to a decade-old Sony VAIO and installed Linux Mint to
the SSD. It's got pretty decent responsiveness and all the old hardware
is supported out of the box.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
