[Visualpython-users] re how to set "pythonpath"

[Laney M. <mi...@co...>]

Thanks to several people who responded.  From you responses, I can see 
that I didn't do a very good job of framing my question. 

Here's the situation.

This is windows xp with python 2.4 and visual python installed in 
C:\python24.  The python runs fine.  To run any of the examply *.py 
files that come with vpython, all I have to do is click file open and 
find the example files located in a subdirectory of c:\python24. 

Now I have several previously written *.py files in a directory that is 
located far from (many clicks away inside the python file open dialog 
box)   What I  really want is to have it so that when I click file open, 
I am already in that directory of mine (the one far removed from 
C:\\python24.  In microsoft word and microsoft excel, there is a dialog 
box in which one can make exactly that setting.

Assuming I cannot do that setting in python, my next preference to have 
is the one I was trying to describe earlier.  I want to fix it so that 
if I type myfile.py from the command line and that myfile.py is in my 
remote directory, that the python will open my file withouth a thousand 
clicks.  I assumed from my reading that onee makes an entry to the 
"pythonpath" variable exactly as one used to do under dos.  From the dos 
prompt, type "path" and the contents of the path variable are 
displayed.  Any modifications are made by adding onto the path statement 
in the autoexec.bat file.

Now in windows xp.  I can't even find the autoexec.bat statement (which 
actually is a dos thing).  I can't find any windows equivalent of 
autoexec.bat or of the path statement itself.  The python books and the 
online docs make reference to a "pythonpath" statement.  It is that 
statement I'm trying to find.  If in python idle, I clice file path 
browser, I get a dialog box that makes a list with about 6-8 lines with 
each line clearly describing a search path.  I am assuming that it I 
need to add my distant directory to that list.  Only I can't figure out 
from the documentat where that list resides, where is comes from, or how 
to add to it. 

I know I am missing some major obvious point that is so fundamental that 
it is hard to address, but still I am in the situation of having to go 
though about 8 clicks *every* time I want to open a file in my own 
directory where my *.py files are located.

Thanks to every and sorry about not giving enough information to make my 
question clear.

Laney Mills

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