PYTHONPATH when calling from ipython

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op Saturday 23 May 2015 17:00 CEST schreef Laura Creighton:

> In a message of Sat, 23 May 2015 16:08:00 +0200, Cecil Westerhof
> writes:
>> That is not the problem:
>> os.environ['PYTHONPATH']
>> gives:
>> .:/home/cecil/Python'
>>
>> As I interpret it is that the very handy shell variable is not used
>> in ipython.
>>
>> -- 
>> Cecil Westerhof
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
>
> It's used around here.  But we all have to do:
> export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:/usr/local/ipython/lib/python
> in our .bashrc files -- or whatever you do if you don't use bash
> to get things to work with ipython.

But I would like to do the same in ipython. Otherwise it is not really
a good idea to switch from bash to ipython.


> Is your problem that you are not getting one particular directory
> loaded, or can you not find any modules at all?

Normal modules are loaded. Only the ones that are found trough
PYTHONPATH are not found.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof