Python Win installations and PYTHONPATH Confusion (WAS: Re: Python Path Blues)

[Maan Hamze]

Tim
I'll look at it.  My confusion is coming from the fact that the Oracle
python package DCOracle2 will not run unless I include it in PYTHONPATH
environment setting.
Maan

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.998260230.20102.python-list at python.org...
> [Maan Hamze]
> > ...
> > how come that the libs that come with pythonwin (regular python libs,
> > not only the ones that are win32 specific) depend heavily on the
> > registry but the ones that are added later by the user can not depend
> > solely on the reistry but on PYTHONWIN setting in environment?  This is
> > disturbing.  Please note that Pythonwin and Python are still reading the
> > PYTHONWIN setting in the environment but they do not create it.
>
> Nothing in the core Python distribution looks at PYTHONWIN, so I'm not
sure
> what you're saying there.  I don't know what PythonWin does, though.
>
> The best docs about what Python on Windows does are in the long comment
> block at the top of
>
>     PC\getpathp.c
>
> in the source distribution.  If you read those and disagree with them,
best
> to sort it out with Mark Hammond (and, yes, those comments "should" work
> their way into the docs -- patches, as always, gratefully accepted).
>
>