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Running Enthought Canopy appears to de-activate the normal .profile PATH information (OS X) for python programs run within the Canopy environment. I need to make locations searchable for user files.

How to do this is not explained in the user manual. There are several possible places to enter such information (eg the two 'activate' files) but adding extra PATH information in them has no effect.

So how is it done?

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dcnicholls
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    Same situation here. Even when I open an iTerm2 window, my prompt shows some text about Canopy ALWAYS. I'm not happy Canopy replaced my profile and uninstalled. After remove the directory I had to edit my .bash_profile to delete a line with the Canopy call. – hmartian Apr 14 '13 at 20:42
  • Getting rid of the unwanted Canopy prompt problem is discussed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15942438 – dcnicholls Apr 15 '13 at 04:08

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On Mac OSX 10.6.8 this worked

% launchctl setenv PYTHONPATH /my/directory:/my/other/directory

then launch Canopy and you should see /my/directory and /my/other/directory on sys.path

user2332470
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This follows from the link to Setting environment variables in OS X? on the page posted by Jonathan. I had made a mistake with the command syntax in the file '/private/etc/launchd.conf'.

Creating or editing the file 'launchd.conf' (using an editor that is aware of permissions, eg BBEdit) in /private/etc with something like the following line:

setenv PYTHONPATH /Users/<username>/Python/:/Users/<username>/AnotherPath/ ,

for example, will create a variable PYTHONPATH that, after rebooting, Canopy sees.

It works for other environment variables, too. The launchd.conf file is all that's needed, and, what's even better, it appears to stick between boots.

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The problem described also occurs in a Win 7 Canopy installation.

I tried to place files to be imported in several of the locations provided in sys.path().

['', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\User\Scripts\python27.zip', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64\DLLs', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64\lib', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64\lib\plat-win', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64\lib\lib-tk', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\User', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\User\lib\site-packages', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\System', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\System\lib\site-packages', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\System\lib\site-packages\PIL', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\System\lib\site-packages\win32', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\System\lib\site-packages\win32\lib', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\System\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64\lib\site-packages', 'C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-1.0.0.1160.win-x86_64\lib\site-packages\IPython\extensions']

The only solution I found was to use:

sys.path.append()

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Does the following article answer this question adequately?: https://support.enthought.com/entries/23665767-How-do-I-set-PYTHONPATH-and-other-environment-variables-for-Canopy-

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