[Eric] PYTHONPATH in eric5

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 25. Juni 2011, Algis Kabaila wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:02:13 PM Algis Kabaila wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It seems that eric5 does not take account of PYTHONPATH.  The path
> > paradigm of Python3.x is different to that of Python2.x.  When porting
> > Python2 scripts to Python3 it becomes necessary to use PYTHONPATH or
> > completely remake the structure of the program.  Even then, PYTHONPATH
> > is very useful and possibly essential.
> > 
> > Is there a way to get eric5 to take account of PYTHONPATH?
> > 
> > Thanks for my favourite IDE - eric!
> > 
> > OldAl.
> 
> I have not really explained where the PYTHONPATH becomes necessary.  The
> scripts often have a package that stores various modules required by the
> program.  Often module2,py  needs to use module1.py and that in Python2 is
> simply
> import module1
> statement in module2, which is in the same package.  In python3, AFAICS,
> this import statement fails, unless the package is on the python path.  In
> these circumstances PYTHONPATH seems to be by far the easiest solution.
> 
> I have tested this on a program for structural analysis where, with the
> PYTHONPATH activated from CLI the import statement works fine, but not in
> eric.
> 
> If required, I could provide a small, artificially made up example.
> 
> Thank you for the great work that you are doing!
> 
> OldAl.
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It should when you enter the correct string in the environment line edit of 
the dialog that appears, when you run, debug, ... your script or project.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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