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setting pythonpath on Windows NT

Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Wed Oct 4 16:56:29 EDT 2000 
Hi Gang,

I've been trying to set my PYTHONPATH on Windows NT for my installation
of 2.0.  Basically, I just want to add a certain directory to my
PYTHONPATH.  After a fair amount of head-banging, I'm ready to ask you
folks for a little help:

1.  I added the directory on to the PYTHONPATH variable using NT's
Registry Editor.  However, it then didn't show up in the sys.path list. 
I restarted the computer, just in case that was an issue, but it _still_
didn't show up.  The sys.path list  matched the Registry's original
PYTHONPATH, so the Registry entry seems to be the source of it.  But
that leaves me stumped as to what basis Python discriminates against my
addition.

2.  Next, I tried adding a ".pth" file inside the Python 2.0
installation.  That worked in terms of the sys.path list, and I also
could import a module from the new directory.  However, I wasn't able to
_execute_ a file in that directory on the command line, from another
directory.  That is, I couldn't do "python Module" or "python
Module.py".  Should I be able to, or is the PYTHONPATH just not intended
for command-line pathing?

3.  Does anybody know the format of the ".pth" file for listing multiple
directories?  The 2.0 doc left an explanation of that as something to be
added later.

also,

4.  Is there any way to _permanently_ set the PYTHONPATH programatically
from within Python?  (Maybe I could append sys.path, but is that only
temporary?)

if-_all_-of-python-were-this-hard-to-deal-with,-i'd-still-be-using
   -perl-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2
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