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How can I add a new pythonpath in Geany? Is something in the preferences/options that I'm missing? I tried adding this in .bashrc , but it didn't work.

export PYTHONPATH=/mypath

What I do now is to add these two lines in the top of every script, but it's not good as a permanent solution:

import sys
sys.path.append('mypath')
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Add export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/mypath to /etc/profile and reboot.

That should work for you.

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yes it did. thank you. if it's no big deal, please tell me why it worked and it didn't work with bashrc –  user143006 May 30 '14 at 10:08
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.bashrc is a configuration file just for bash, etc/profile is run when you login. I imagine Geany does not start bash to run your scripts. –  Padraic Cunningham May 30 '14 at 10:14
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You can also do it without modifying any system configuration.

In Geany go to Edit > Preferences > Tools

Terminal field should say something like:

x-terminal-emulator -e "/bin/sh %c"

Change it to:

x-terminal-emulator -e "env PYTHONPATH=/mypath /bin/sh %c"
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