[ros-users] $PYTHONPATH in setup.sh (was: $PYTHONPATH in launch files)

[Lorenz Mösenlechner]

Hi,

I just checked on my system and it seems that only the cturtle binary
packages have a wrong setup.sh. The current rosinstall version 0.5.1
gets it right.

Lorenz

> On May 28, 2010, Ken Conley wrote:
> > > That only leaves one (slightly related) issue: The PYTHONPATH set up in
> > > "setup.sh" when included e.g. in .bashrc. Is there a reason why that
> > > should be completely reset to ROS' PYTHONPATH, and not appended like the
> > > PATH environment variable?
> >
> > It probably could be changed. I'm not sure why it is set in that manner. 
> 
> Sorry to nag again, but in the current cturtle the user's PYTHONPATH 
> variable is still overwritten in setup.sh instead of appending ROS' path 
> to it:
> 
> export PYTHONPATH=${ROS_ROOT}/core/roslib/src:${PYTHONPATH}
> 
> Was this forgotten, or is there a specific reason for it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Armin
> 

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