It depends on what shell you are using. Most beginners use the Bash shell and for that you need to open your .bash_profile (or .bashrc, I can't recall the preferred one for env vars...) and add a line like:
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/my/python/modules Next time you login Python should find your modules OK. HTH Alan Gauld Author of the Learn To Program website http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ ________________________________ From: Surya P.K. Kasturi <kasturisu...@gmail.com> To: Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> Cc: Tutor@python.org Sent: Sunday, 17 July, 2011 7:45:08 Subject: Re: how to add directory to python search list Mr. Gauld can you tell me in detail how to do this. I am new to linux. On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: Surya P.K. Kasturi wrote: > >OS : Ubuntu Linux >>Python Version : 2.6.4 >> >>I have some third party modules to be installed in my computer. >>So, I want to add the module directory to python search list. >> >>I used : >> >>*>>> import sys* >>*>>> sys.path.append('directory address')* >>* >>* >>this could do my work but as soon as I close the terminal and reopen it, I >> You need to add the folder to your PYTHONPATH environment variable. >You usually do this your .login or .profile file. > >Python will add the contents of PYTHONPATH to sys.path on startup. > >HTH, > > >Alan G >
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