$PYTHONHOME

[Michael Hudson]

Matthew Hirsch <meh9 at cornell.edu> writes:

> I'm using Python on a hp-unix machine.  This is what I get when I
> type python at the prompt (I added it to my path already).
> 
> $python
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jan 3 2000, 15:54:36)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024
> (release)] on hp-uxB
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>>
> 
> The python directory is under /usr/local/.  I found a directory
> /usr/local/python-1.5.2/lib/python1.5/plat-hp-uxB.  I'm guessing that
> this is the directory for the platform dependent libraries. I tried
> adding $PYTHONHOME=/usr/local to my .profile but it didn't make a

Try making that $PYTHONHOME=/usr/local/python-1.5.2 ?

> difference.  Is there a root profile that I need to change?

Don't think so.

Cheers,
M.

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