Python Essentials

Seeing the package search path

The Python search path can be seen by importing the sys package to see sys.path:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools-2.0.2-py3.3.egg',
…, etc.
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python33.zip',
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3',
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/plat-darwin',
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload',
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages']

We've elided a number of lines from this output to show the essentials of how the standard library fits into the way we ...