Revisions to How do I find out my PYTHONPATH using Python?

Avoid the KeyError issue

edited Mar 31, 2022 at 18:01

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.seppathsep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os os.environ['PYTHONPATH']environ.get('PYTHONPATH', '').split(os.pathsep)

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.sep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.pathsep)

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.pathsep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os os.environ.get('PYTHONPATH', '').split(os.pathsep)

os.sep is for directory separator - needs to be os.pathsep for the path separator.

edited Jun 13, 2011 at 21:06

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.sep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os import sys os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.seppathsep)

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.sep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os import sys os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.sep)

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.sep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.pathsep)

answered Sep 28, 2009 at 22:27

Can't seem to edit the other answer. Has a minor error in that it is Windows-only. The more generic solution is to use os.sep as below:

sys.path might include items that aren't specifically in your PYTHONPATH environment variable. To query the variable directly, use:

import os import sys os.environ['PYTHONPATH'].split(os.sep)

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