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

[Larry Meyn]

I had the same desire to protect files while allowing easy Python upgrades.  I used to use aliased folders, but they broke after Python 1.5.2.  Now I use double colons as shown in the the following lines to specify folders in the parent folder containing Python:

$(PYTHON)::packages
$(PYTHON)::PythonProjects


At 4:48 AM +0900 7/11/01, kevin parks wrote:
>Back on OS 9 for a stretch... Heres a question. I usually for one reason or another have to reinstall my system. I have had the ultimate nightmare of trashing my Python folder and reinstalling only to realize that i had something in the scripts folder that i should have copied, before wiping the disk. Therefore 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 EditPythonPrefs doohickey to anything other than $(PYTHON):something:foobar
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>lets say i have three disks
>sys
>apps
>stuff
>
>and i want to make a folder called scripts on another disk, or even if i put my scripts on sys with my python distribution, but put it not in the Python 2.1 folder but a folder "behind" (as in not down the Python 2.1 folder's path) how do i specify that in the EditPythonPrefs thingy? i tried:
>
>:sys:scripts
>and also:
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>::sys:scripts
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>Nothing works. I really really really really want to get my scripts someplace safe so that when i upgrade to Python 2.2 or whathave you i don't erase my code.
>
>The EditPythonPrefs has no example of how to do this all the paths start from the Python folder like so:
>
>$(PYTHON)
>$(PYTHON):Mac:PlugIns
>$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib
>$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib:lib-toolbox
>$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib:lib-scriptpackages
>$(PYTHON):Lib
>$(PYTHON):Extensions:img:Mac
>$(PYTHON):Extensions:img:Lib
>$(PYTHON):Extensions:Imaging:PIL
>$(PYTHON):Lib:lib-tk
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