PYTHONSTARTUP and Cygwin

Dwi Sianto Mansjur dwimansjur at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 30 07:36:42 EDT 2004


yes, it works after I use:
export PYTHONPATH=/home/Cherna/DevelopingTools

I set the shell/environment variable in Cywin.bat
I thought that will take car of the business.
But now it works, 

Thanks a lot.

Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message news:<%Sckc.8205$f_5.1627 at lakeread01>...
> Dwi Sianto Mansjur wrote:
> > I tried to set up PYTHONPATH in cygwin but it doesn't work.
> > Any clue why ?
> > The following is my session.
> > 
> > $ echo $PYTHONPATH
> > /home/Cherna/86_DevelopingTools:/home/Cherna/87_TestingCorpus
> > 
> > $ echo $PYTHONSTARTUP
> > /home/Cherna/86_DevelopingTools:/home/Cherna/87_TestingCorpus
> > 
> > $ python
> > Python 2.3.3 (#1, Dec 30 2003, 08:29:25) 
> > [GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > 
> >>>>import sys
> >>>>sys.path
> > 
> > ['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3',
> > '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-cygwin', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk',
> > '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages',
> > '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric']
> > 
> > thanks.
> 
> You probably forgot to export them to put them in the environment?
> 
> $ export PYTHONPATH=/c/testwebapp:/c/Steve
> 
> sholden at DELLBOY /c/testwebapp/views
> $ echo $PYTHONPATH
> /c/testwebapp:/c/Steve
> 
> sholden at DELLBOY /c/testwebapp/views
> $ python
> Python 2.3.3 (#1, Dec 30 2003, 08:29:25)
> [GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import sys
>  >>> sys.path
> ['', '/c/testwebapp', '/c/Steve', '/usr/lib/python23.zip',
> '/usr/lib/python2.3',  '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-cygwin',
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python
> 2.3/lib-dynload',
> '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages']
>  >>>
> 
> Certainly works for me, anyhow ...
> 
> regards
>   Steve



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