How to set python IDLE to use pythonpath variable in Ubuntu 10.04

Question

I have set a pythonpath variable in my ~/.bashrc and it works fine when using python interpreter from the command line and bpython, but IDLE is not recognizing it.

How can I configure it to load the pythonpath variable?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

• You can upgrade Ubuntu, because it works fine on my 10.10 machine with the idle-python2.7 package and PYTHONPATH set in my ~/.profile (which shouldn't matter because bash normally loads both)
• Or you can change sys.path in /usr/bin/idle* as per Setting PYTHONPATH for idle?