[Wylug-discuss] special treatment of /usr/local on linux?

[David Holden]

On Monday 24 July 2006 13:03, Jason Lander wrote:
> > This fails to run on my machine because it tries to pick up library
> > from /usr/local/lib rather than /usr/llib
>
> I think Python searches in directories defined by the
>
>     PYTHONPATH
>
> environment variable, not PATH.
>
> - Jason


 Thanks this was the problem.

Unfortunately PYTHONPATH just seems to add to sys.path. So far the only way 
I've been able to remove /usr/local from the search path is to set sys.path 
in the app :(

  Cheers,

        dave.




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