On 4/26/07, Switanek, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone help me better understand how I ought to manage the modules and > packages that I download? I often find that I can't use the code I've just > downloaded, despite putting it into Lib/site-packages. Often I've added the > subdirectory path via sys.path.append, but this seems to go only one level > down, whereas I thought that when trying to import something python would > search all subdirectories of the directories in the sys.path. I'd be glad > for some basic instruction on the steps I need to take between downloading > code from sourceforge and importing the functions in my scripts or at the > command line.
You can use the environment-variable $PYTHONPATH for localized modules you download. I have for example PYTHONPATH=~/hacks/python/modules, and I put all downloaded modules in there. -- - Rikard - http://bos.hack.org/cv/ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
