How to circumvent having to append path every time I want to use a package?

Asked Sep 27 '17 at 15:38

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so there is a package I am using that always has an import error. The way I am solving this is by adding the line

path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages')

before every time I import it. How do I tell python to just check this location for packages automatically instead of manually appending the path every time? This is using CentOS and python 2.7 if that's important.

asked Sep 27 '17 at 15:38

Terry Martin

I think it is anwered here: https://stackoverflow.com/q/15252040/1758363, change PYTHONPATH – Evgeny Sep 27 '17 at 15:43
Based on the answers there, I added: `export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages"` to my ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile. Still doesn't seem to work – Terry Martin Sep 27 '17 at 15:59
Scratch that, it worked after restarting bash. – Terry Martin Sep 27 '17 at 16:06

How to circumvent having to append path every time I want to use a package?

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