On 9/17/06, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> listed in the variable sys.path. sys.path gets populated when
> >> Python starts up and includes some standard locations plus
> >> any you define in your PYTHONPATH environment variable.
> >>
> > I checked my PYTHONPATH environment variable
>
> > My questions are:
> > 1. since the desktop directory is not listed in the PYTHONPATH ,
> > why there is no error report when I import a module which is in the
> > desktop?
> > 2. why there is no directory such as c:\python24 where I install the
> > python?
>
> Notice i said it ioncluded some "standard locations" as well as Python
> Path.
>
> The standard library, sitepackages and current directory are all
> included.
>
> If you want to see the full set of locations python is loking in you
> need to print sys.path
>
> >>> import sys
> >>> print sys.path
>
> For example I get:
>
> Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ printenv PYTHONPATH
> /cygdrive/d/Development/PROJECTS/Python
>
> And in Python
>
> >>> sys.path
> ['', '/cygdrive/d/Development/PROJECTS/Python',
> '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/l
> ib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/python2.4/plat-cygwin',
> '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/
> usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages']
> >>>
>
> So I have quite a lot more defined than what is in PYTHONPATH
I checked sys.path and environemntal variables:
since the desktop directory is not listed in either of them,
why there is no error report when I import a module which is in the
desktop into test.py which is under a different folder?
Linda
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