My <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">.bashrc</span> includes the following:<br><br><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages<br>PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/offlineimap/repository<br>

PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/offlineimap/folder<br>PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/offlineimap/ui<br>PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/offlineimap/;export PYTHONPATH<br>

</span><br>And then I issued a <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">. .bashrc</span> command before trying to call offlineimap from an arbitrary location.<br><br>And, indeed, <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">python -c 'import sys; print sys.path'</span> includes the above paths in its output list.<br>

<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2012 05:48, Zoltan Szalontai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:offlineimap@szazol.hu" target="_blank">offlineimap@szazol.hu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Hi Benjamin<br>
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On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 05:05:02PM -0500, Benjamin Slade wrote:<br>
> Thanks, Nicolas.<br>
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</div>> I tried  PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages but it's still not finding it if I run from outside the offlineimap directory itself....<br>
<br>
Did you export the PYTHONPATH variable?<br>
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--<br>
Zoltan Szalontai<br>
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