problem with PYTHONPATH on WinXP

[D Denholm]

Thanks, that did the trick. 

I am still puzzled why the PYTHONPATH environment variable didn't
work. Is it overwritten if *any* *.pth files exist?



Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message news:<WqGdnYCgYuL7xALdRVn-uw at powergate.ca>...
> D Denholm wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed Python 2.2 on my WinXP box.
> > 
> > I am having problems figuring out how to create the PYTHONPATH
> > correctly.
> 
> I would suggest not using PYTHONPATH, but instead use the .pth
> file capability defined in and used by site.py.  Check the
> comments at the top of that file in your python/lib folder,
> and make a .pth file with the appropriate contents instead
> of mucking with environment variables.  One thing to note:
> the file extension must be lower case or site.py won't
> find the file.
> 
> -Peter