On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Yarko Tymciurak<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:16 AM, ctalley<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks guys. Yarko, you are nothing if not prolific - all I ever >> wanted to know and more. :-) >> >> I just felt like there must be some mechanism to tell python where to >> find files from the command prompt short of typing the entire path and >> that I was missing something. I didn't really think pythonpath or >> sys.path were the right answer, but hey it was worth a shot. >> >> But this does work (I tried it)... >> python %web2pypath%\web2py.py --upgrade yes >> >> The only catch is that web2pypath has to be in the "short name" format >> (limit of 8 characters per path segment, no spaces, etc.). >> >> So in my case, this... >> >> C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\w2p\web2py source\web2py > > the problem with this, I suspect, is not the "short path" is needed - > it is that spaces are in the command line, > so python is seeing four command line paramaters in this (not one).... .... sorry... I miscounted: 5 parameters instead of one... > > Try, instead, > > python "%web2pypath%"/web2py.py -upgrade yes > >> >> looks like this... >> >> C:\DOCUME~1\user\MYDOCU~1\w2p\WEB2PY~2\web2py >> >> >> On Aug 26, 5:32 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote: >>> .... >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I've added the web2py.py path to sys.path using sys.path.append and >>> >> verified using print sys.path >>> >>> > Again - this would have an effect if you wrote a script that did >>> > "import web2py" - but since web2py isn't a module (rather an >>> > application) this is of little use. >>> >>> sorry - this is wrong (I was thinking ahead too fast); >>> >>> what sys.path does is the same thing as setting your windows PATH >>> environment, but modifying only the current processes' copy of the >>> execution environment (e.g. it is lost after that process exits). >>> >>> So if you type "set" in a windows command (or "env" in unix/linux) you >>> will see your sys environment variables; same for inside a running >>> pythong script - if you import sys, then the python interface for that >>> environment is as you show, and you can extend / modify it in your >>> running process. >> >> >> >
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