In ruby the library path is provided in $:, in perl it's in @INC - how do you get the list of paths that Python searches for modules when you do an import?
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You can also make additions to this path with the PYTHONPATH environment variable at runtime, in addition to:
import sys
sys.path.append('/home/user/python-libs')
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I think you're looking for sys.path
import sys
print (sys.path)
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import sys
sys.path
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python -c "import sys; print('\n'.join(sys.path))"
/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python39.zip
/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9
/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.9.10/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages
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To get a good overview without even opening a python prompt you can use this:
python -m site
$:.$"is a list of modules loaded byrequire.