[Chicago] Anaconda vs. IDLE.

[Lewit, Douglas]

Hey David,

Your suggestions are good and logical, but unfortunately they don't work.
I tried opening IDLE from within Terminal, but that didn't help.  I also
tried the "putenv" from the os library.  It didn't produce any error
message, but when I checked my $PATH with os.getenv( ) it was the same as
before.  I'm not entirely sure this is a pure Python problem.  It could be
a Mac OS-X problem too.  As I mentioned earlier, this doesn't seem to be an
issue on my Ubuntu machine.  As for Windows, I have no idea.  I normally do
not use Windows unless I really have to.

Thanks,

Douglas.


On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:

> Hey David,
>
> I'll try this out.  I gotta shut down the laptop and get to work!  But
> thanks for the easy solution.  I will try both suggestions can get back to
> you--probably tomorrow.
>
> Have a great day and thanks so much!
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:21 AM, David Rock <david at graniteweb.com> wrote:
>
>> * Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> [2015-10-15 08:08]:
>> >
>> >
>> *//anaconda/bin:/Users/administrator/anaconda/bin:/Users/administrator/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin*
>> >
>> >
>> > Now let's turn to IDLE for a moment.
>> >
>> >
>> > *import os*
>> >
>> > *print( os.getenv("PATH") )*
>> >
>> >
>> > *'/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'  ####  NOT the same as above!!!*
>> >
>> > If anyone can provide a solution I would be very grateful.  Is there
>> some
>> > way (using "os" or "sys" functions) that I can get IDLE to "see" my
>> > computer's complete path?  I tried to find a solution on Stack Overflow,
>> > but the stuff I found there was a little incoherent.
>>
>>
>> How are you starting IDLE?  If you are starting it from the Terminal, it
>> should inherit the same $PATH.
>>
>> As for setting it within IDLE, you used os.getenv to see $PATH, try using
>> os.putenv to set it:
>>
>>
>> os.putenv("PATH","/anaconda/bin:/Users/administrator/anaconda/bin:/Users/administrator/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin")
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Rock
>> david at graniteweb.com
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