Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'skip:[ 20': 0.03; 'argument': 0.04; 'modify': 0.05; 'sys': 0.05; 'so?': 0.07; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'variable,': 0.07; 'subject:How': 0.09; 'python': 0.09; '"if': 0.09; 'given,': 0.09; 'inserted': 0.09; 'path.': 0.09; 'subject:python': 0.11; "skip:' 30": 0.15; 'is",': 0.16; 'subject: \n ': 0.16; 'subject:when': 0.16; 'sys.path': 0.16; 'variable.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'script.': 0.17; 'variable': 0.20; 'trying': 0.21; 'import': 0.21; 'location,': 0.22; 'script': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'environment': 0.29; 'cat': 0.29; "skip:' 20": 0.32; 'running': 0.32; 'print': 0.32; 'says': 0.33; 'directory,': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'front': 0.33; 'hi,': 0.33; 'text': 0.34; 'path': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'anything': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'instead': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'containing': 0.61; 'different': 0.63; 'within': 0.64; 'received:74.208': 0.71; '.....': 0.75; 'subject:add': 0.91 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 07:32:28 -0400 From: Dave Angel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130221 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: How to add the current dir to sys.path when calling a python file? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:BQ9QNoe4oOhvL3uyB3pardpss8E6Fgf5W6RjL7fvM7+ jD+NkELt0rOFx5X0V5bJeuJ27udQOIdCFuewI6vqi40BKfCL9P YMLxHN6bPEQh2+Shp+4h8KlzmIb52rYeP6muJ1aKUX2knccZmc kV+ZnI2vxxWP1nI8dVrkppROJZ/llkf6xe6HAIj9ar0IKCKbcm 9YrxSqh8Mfvh1yXGOZ6kPxxZCgZkmjgOeuzmOfDUVMGpvw7GgI DAfHazHEzo1EPgusrSg5uidNSXdI2R0RTTJ7Z3hgNgE9aGequa 48IZ7CWuCaKwWEcZ8OtIjvQep8Fb6Ljas3uaeTpXPmV5B/AJA= = X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1363606369 news.xs4all.nl 6937 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41409 On 03/17/2013 11:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > man python says "If a script argument is given, the directory > containing the script is inserted in the path in front of $PYTHONPATH. > The search path can be manipulated from within a Python program as > the variable sys.path." Instead I want to have the current directory > inserted to the front of $PYTHONPATH without changing anything the > script. Is there a way to do so? > if the script you're running is in the current directory, it'll just already do what you seem to be asking. cd /home/davea/temppython cat peng.;py import sys print "sys.path is", sys.path python peng.py sys.path is ['/home/davea/temppython', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/l ..... The text you quoted is trying to say that there are 3 different ways you can modify the search path. The script name's location, the $PYTHONPATH environment variable, and the sys.path Python variable. -- DaveA