Module Import Path?

[Jesse B.]

Thank you for the quick response, this was driving me alittle nuts. I
appreciate the help.


"Brian van den Broek" <bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> wrote in message
news:mailman.1013.1091293872.5135.python-list at python.org...
> Jesse B. said unto the world upon 31/07/2004 15:42:
> > I have just begun to learn python using o'reilly's Learning Python, and
in
> > chapter 3 it talks about importing modules. It has me make modules to
> > practice using the 'import' and 'from' statements from the python
command
> > line.
> >
> > I don't know what directory to save these files in because I'm not sure
what
> > directories  'import' is looking in to find modules. I've done some
google
> > searches trying to find out where the 'import' search path is, but I'm
not
> > familiar enough with python to do a clear enough search. I'd appriciate
it
> > if anyone can help me out or point me in the right direction.
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Typing too quickly, I wrote
>
> > import sys
> > sys.path
> >
> > will tell you how your Python Path is configured.
>
> Not everything returned by sys.path is there because of your PYTHONPATH
> environment variable. For instance, the first entry is the one from which
> your running script was loaded. Likewise, the standard Library Dirs are
> there, too. Check out the sys module documentation for the full details.
>
> Best,
>
> Brian vdB
>