Sublime Text 2: custom PATH and PYTHONPATH

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FLX picture FLX · Dec 20, 2011 · Viewed 61.4k times · Source

I'm using brew which installs python (2.7.2) in /usr/local/bin/ However, the default system python (2.7.1) is executed instead at /usr/bin/, which seems to be because it doesn't obey any of the bash PATH environment variables. Also, it can't find my modules, as they are installed at /usr/local/lib/python:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages.

I've been trying the following with Python.sublime-settings, but it doesn't work:

{
"path": "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin",
"env": ["PYTHONPATH", "/usr/local/lib/python:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages"],
"cmd": ["python", "-u", "$file"],
"file_regex": "^[ ]*File \"(...*?)\", line ([0-9]*)",
"selector": "source.python"
}

How can I make Sublime Text obey these environment variables?

Answer

Bo Fjord Jensen picture Bo Fjord Jensen · Mar 29, 2012

env needs to be a JSON object, or dictionary if you will, like this:

"env":
{
    "PYTHONPATH":"/usr/local/lib/python:/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages"
},

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