I'm going through and writing a setup doc for other developers at work for a python project and I've been reading up on the PYTHONPATH environment variable. I'm looking at my current development system and think I have a few things set wrong that is causing my IDE (IntelliJ) to behave incorrectly when looking up the python libraries. I've looked at the documentation here and here and I'm still unsure of what should actually be in the PYTHONPATH environment variable. I have PYTHONHOME pointed to C:\Python27. My current PYTHONPATH is set to PYTHONHOME. Should I also add the directories from sys.path? UPDATE: Based on the below information, PYTHONPATH does not need to be set unless there are non-standard libraries that you want python to be able to find by default. For instance, when I install wxPython from the installer it will add its libraries to PYTHONPATH. I do set PYTHONHOME to the root of the python installation so that I can add it to my system PATH environment variable so that I can run python from any where. Continue reading...
