Re: [Visualpython-users] pythonpath question- how to set it

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 09:55 -0500, Laney Mills wrote:
> I need to add to the search path with the IDLE uses so that I can run 
> some py programs from a directory of mine.  I can find a display of the 
> search path under "file, path browser" but I cannot find in the 
> documentation anywhere how one can add to this list.

See the documentation for sys.path.

>   Searching the doc 
> files I easily find a reference to environment variables,

Environment variables are a feature of your operating system, not Python
itself.

>  but I cannot 
> find any descriptin that I can actually understand how one actually sets 
> environment variables.  I am supposing that setting or adding to the 
> *.py search path is what the term "environment vars" is referring to.

HTH,
-Jonathan