jython import search path

[Russ]

On Feb 21, 4:15 pm, Larry Bates <lba... at websafe.com> wrote:
> Russ wrote:
> > I have a Python program that I want to run in Jython so I can get Java
> > bytecode output. The program runs fine in Python, but when I change
> > the first line of the main program to make it run in Jython, it fails
> > to find some of the imported modules. These are just plain Python
> > imports of code I wrote myself in another directory.
>
> > Apparently Jython does not use the PYTHONPATH environment variable. I
> > created an environment variable called JYTHONPATH just to see what
> > would happen, but it didn't work either. How am I supposed to tell
> > Jython where to search for imported modules? Thanks.
>
> Maybe Jython expert has the perfect answer but til then.
>
> Did you try:
>
> sys.path.append('path to search')
>
> Usually this works if nothing else does.
>
> -Larry

Thanks. That's a good workaround, but I would like to know the
"correct" way to do it too if anyone out there knows.