Add to PYTHONPATH

If you're using bash (on a Mac or GNU/Linux distro), add this to your ~/.bashrc

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/my/other/path

Make sure the directory you point to has at the topmost init.py file in your directory structure.


For example, I tried export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/Users/joey/repos but it did not work because my repos directory did not have _init_.py. 

Going down one directory further: /Users/joey/repos/specificRepo did the trick. Now python can traverse any downward directory connected to the specificRepo directory that contains a init.py !



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