[Pythonmac-SIG] (no subject)

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 11, 2005, at 10:34 AM, konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:

> On May 10, 2005, at 19:21, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> A system administrator should never, ever, be setting PYTHONPATH.
>>
>
> Most of the Unix machines I have worked on have PYTHONPATH set  
> globally
> to something. I suppose the administrator's point of view is that
> Python is part of the system, users are not supposed to have their own
> installation. Which for most users is probably right.

I have never seen this.  There's really no reason to do it, a  
sysadmin can do what they need to do to site-packages.  That's what  
it's there for.

> I don't know what the typical situation on the Mac is, but I tend to
> view the Mac as part of the big Unix family.

It's the same except when it's not :)  This is one of the cases where  
it's not really, because environment variables don't carry over to  
the GUI unless you try particularly hard.

-bob