I have a number of modules that I have in my documents folder but sage does not look like it honors my PYTHONPATH environmental variable. What do I have to add to my .bashrc or .bash_profile to have sage look at alternate paths?
Sage uses PYTHONPATH for its own purposes. If you add the directory/directories to SAGE_PATH (export SAGE_PATH=/some/dir/here) it should work, at least it seems to for me.
Beware: it looks like SAGE_PATH is added before Sage's existing python in sage-env:
PYTHONPATH="$SAGE_PATH:$SAGE_ROOT/local/lib/python" && export PYTHONPATH
so if you shadow one of the built-in modules you could get strange errors. [Not that you couldn't get errors if it were the other way 'round, of course, but you might not even be able to get to the prompt.]
Emerson, these are directives specified in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file sitting in your home directory. The best thing for you to do is to learn about the .bashrc file (and the .bash_profile file) in general, then look into what are known as environment variables, which are these PATH things they are talking about.
Asked: 2011-02-28 17:54:52 +0100
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Last updated: Oct 05 '11
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