I have 2 questions I'm curious about (BTW, I use the default python installation as delivered with Linux SuSe 10.0)
(1) How can I print the path to the python I'm using and where it imports built-in modules? python.sys returns (i probably want 64bit, so this seems ok): /usr/lib/python24.zip /usr/lib64/python2.4 /usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2 /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk /usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/PIL But, "which python" in the shell returns /usr/bin/python And "whereis python" returns python: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/lib/python2.4 /usr/include/python /usr/include/python2.4 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz Does this mean I am using the python executable in "/usr/bin/python/" but it then looks for built-in modules in "/usr/lib64/python2.4/"? (2) A clarification question: PYTHONPATH is not needed as long as one just imports built-in modules (such as re or sys) or own modules from the same directory as the importing script, right? For example, running "python foo.py" on the command line, where foo.py imports a module "foo2.py" from the same directory, the current directory is inferred automatically, right? Thanks! E. Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm Graduate student/Dept. of Linguistics, UIUC http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/ebbaalm/ Office: 2013 Beckman Phone: (217) 721-7387 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
