[Tutor] A simple question

[BELSEY, Dylan]

Hi Marc,
	I have been experimenting with this recently and although I don't
have the definitive answer, I believe that you can set the PYTHONPATH system
variable to the directory where these modules live or place these new
modules into the lib directory (not sure if this last one works...may want
to verify).  These may not be the cleanest ways, so I'm open to criticism
from the gurus :)
	Contrary to previous postings, and this is a personal preference, I
found Ivan Van Laningham's SAMS Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours, to be
very helpful.  This was actually a topic of discussion today and an O'Reilly
book was mentioned (???) if memory serves me correctly.  Unfortunately I
have deleted the e-mail so you may want to search the archives of this list
for today and yesterday.  The archive is at:
		http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2002-August/date.html
	I found this relevant e-mail in the archive:
	
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2002-August/016309.html
	
	I'm sure someone else on the list will be able to give you the
complete reference.

		Dylan

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc French [mailto:mcfrench69@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2002 04:26
To: tutor@python.org
Subject: [Tutor] A simple question


Hello,
I am having problems importing modules from other parties, ie Scipy and 
Gnuplot.py. Is there a directory that python is looking in when you import a

module? The modules are in C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages & a folder for 
their respective .py files.
I am running python 2.2 with Pythonwin on Windows 2000.
I am a Visual Basic programmer. Do you recommend any good python books for 
someone not use to the command line coming from a visual language?
Thanks for your help ahead of time.
Marc

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