newbie : python path setting on linux

[Erik Max Francis]

Anand Ganesh wrote:

>         I downloaded the python gtk bindings and compiled the module.
> I've a set of files in the directory ~/tmp/pygtk-0.6.6. Now I try to
> run the examples in ~/tmp/pygtk-0.6.6/examples/simple say simple1.py.
> It says :
> ImportError: No module named _gtk
> 
> Now, I tried fiddling with PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME. I set PYTHONHOME
> to
> ~/tmp/pygtk-0.6.6 and PYTHONPATH to ./ (b'cos PYTHONHOME is prefixed
> ?).
> Anyways, didnt work. Same error. Infact printing sys.path I find that
> it
> doesnt have ~/tmp/pygtk-0.6.6 on it at all.

Because you didn't add it to it.  PYTHONHOME indicates where the main
Python directory resides (if different from the compiled-in default, if
it's in your path); PYTHONPATH adds additional search paths.  You should
add the directory which the actual gtk module resides in to PYTHONPATH,
not PYTHONHOME.

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