[pymvpa] trouble using tutorials

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Adam Jones wrote:

>    Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated.
>    I already had -tutorialdata and -doc installed.
>    But as you suggest, cfg.get('location', 'tutorial data') does work within
>    ipython. I can't say I understand why this is, but either way I'm still
>    not able to access cfg from outside of ipython.
>    Is it necessary to setup the config file correctly for anything other than
>    the tutorials? If so, any idea how I can set my config file to point to
>    '/home/lab/pymvpa2_tutorial/data/' when accessed from just regular ol'
>    python? 

two ways
- env variable:
$> MVPA_LOCATION_TUTORIAL_DATA=/tmp/ python -c 'import mvpa2; print mvpa2.cfg.get("location", "tutorial data")'
/tmp/

(adjust accordingly)

- modify you ~/.pymvpa2.cfg to have
[location]
tutorial data = /home/lab/pymvpa2_tutorial/data/

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