install packages to home dir?

[Michael Hudson]

ozonehole2k at yahoo.com (Ozone Hole near South Pole) writes:

[...]
> However, when I go back to university, problem arises...  Being low in
> the pecking order, our sysadmin does not respond well to our request
> for package install.  As we do not have write access to
> python2.0/site-packages, I can only copy all the files in the external
> packages into my own work directory...

$PYTHONPATH? (man python, or python -h)

HTH,
M.

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