On May 11, 2005, at 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 10, 2005, at 19:21, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> A system administrator should never, ever, be setting PYTHONPATH. >> > > Most of the Unix machines I have worked on have PYTHONPATH set > globally > to something. I suppose the administrator's point of view is that > Python is part of the system, users are not supposed to have their own > installation. Which for most users is probably right.
I have never seen this. There's really no reason to do it, a sysadmin can do what they need to do to site-packages. That's what it's there for. > I don't know what the typical situation on the Mac is, but I tend to > view the Mac as part of the big Unix family. It's the same except when it's not :) This is one of the cases where it's not really, because environment variables don't carry over to the GUI unless you try particularly hard. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
