[Pythonmac-SIG] setting search path on OS 9 behind $(PYTHON)

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, "kevin parks" <kp87@lycos.com> said:
> Back on OS 9 for a stretch... Heres a question. I usually for one reason or a
> nother have to reinstall my system. I have had the ultimate nightmare of tras
> hing my Python folder and reinstalling only to realize that i had something i
> n the scripts folder that i should have copied, before wiping the disk. There
> fore i dislike ever putting (or having to put) and of my scripts in my Python
>  folder. IDE be damned. However i have no idea how to set the path in the Edi
> tPythonPrefs doohickey to anything other than $(PYTHON):something:foobar

Simple enough: just type the full pathname and don't start with
$(PYTHON). The $(PYTHON) bit is replaced by the pathname of the Python
home folder early during startup.

So you could simply type "Macintosh HD:My Python Scripts:" into the
text field to have that folder added to your sys.path.
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