Pythonpath Is Still Ignored And Unable To Install Locally With Pip

I'm finding that my pythonpath environment variable is ignored. I'm using python 2.6 on ubuntu. I have in my .bashrc the following: export PTYHONPATH=/my/home/mylibs/lib/python2.6/

Solution 1:

Ok, Python will use the first package it finds. The PYTHONPATH gets appended to sys.path, after the system one. So it will normally find the system one first. But the "official" per-user packages directory seems to be placed before that. So create your personal site-packages directory:

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
mkdir$HOME/bin

(You may have to change "lib64" to "lib32" or just "lib")

This directory gets placed before the system one on my system. But you should verify it by printing out sys.path.

Then install your packages into there. However, the --user option in the latest pip version should already place it there.

As a list resort you can manipulate sys.path. You can insert your directory into sys.path before the system site-packages, then import numpy.

You are getting permissions errors from the scripts installation, trying to put that in the system location. You can pass additional options to install scripts in your $HOME/bin directory.

Install like this:

pip install --user --install-option="--install-scripts=$HOME/bin"