[Zope] finding zope python libraries.

[Thomas B. Passin]

There is also the "pth" file mechanism.  I believe it works the same in *nix
as in Windows.  It's what I usually use.  Create a file named anything.pth
and put it in the same directory as the python executable.  "anything" can
be any legal filename.

In the .pth file, put each path you want to add to the pythonpath, one path
to a line.  When python starts, it reads all the .pth files it finds and
appends the paths in them to its path list.

Using this method, you can have several different python installations, and
they will each use their own paths, which isn't always the case if you use
the PYTHONPATH environmental variable.

Cheers,

Tom P

Dieter Maurer wrote

> ghaley@mail.venaca.com writes:
>  > the returned value does not display the zope/lib/python/ directory --
so
>  > after reading a lot of python documentation, cruising the zope.org
search
>  > facility, i can define the pythonpath in my shell, but this is good
only
>  > for my console, how do i make these zope python libraries available to
>  > zope?
> I do this in the Zope start script:
>
>   PYTHONPATH=....whatever-you-like....
>   export PYTHONPATH
>
>   ....
>   python z2.py ....
>