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Jessica Alan
Jessica Alan

Reputation: 728

Adding files to PYTHONPATH in OS X

Okay, I am tearing my hair out trying to do this. I've read through dozens of webpages and they've all given me contradictory information, and none of what they've told me to do has worked.

I have a folder full of scripts I downloaded that will only work if they're part of the pythonpath. I want to either move the folder itself into the default path or temporarily (not permanently) add /desktop/search to the path.

What is the default path, and how would I do the latter?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 264

Answers (2)

Ned Deily
Ned Deily

Reputation: 85045

The canonical UNIX approach would be to ensure each of the scripts has a proper shebang line, perhaps:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7

and then installed with the proper permissions (i.e. including execute permission) in a directory on your shell search PATH, perhaps /usr/local/bin. Then you can invoke a script just with its name:

scriptname

The pythonic approach would be to install the scripts using Distutils/easy_install/pip into one of the standard site-packages locations for your Python instance and then be able to invoke a script with something like:

python2.7 -m scriptname

But that may require some work to get everything set up. The first approach is probably easier.

The bottom-line is that you can't really do exactly what you asked for, that is, be able to type python scriptname when the scriptflle can be in an arbitrary directory.

Upvotes: 1

btstevens89
btstevens89

Reputation: 147

You can add this to the beginning of your python file.

import sys    
sys.path.append("/Users/<username>/Desktop/search")

Upvotes: 1

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