Default PYTHONPATH for vim (Mac OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion)

[William Broach]

Hello,

On a fresh install of Mac OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, vim reports its PYTHONPATH as follows:

:python import sys; print(sys.path)

['/usr/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages', '/usr/Extras/lib/python', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/li
b/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload']

the system-wide "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages" is not in its PYTHONPATH.

This is causing issues with my vim plugins as they will not run unless I add the following to my vimrc: python import sys; sys.path.append('/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages')

This doesn't seem right, can anyone provide any insight to this?

Thanks

[Phil Dobbin]

I have the same trouble too & I'm still running 10.6.8.

Although my console Vim & Python installation are from MacPorts, I still
had to set PYTHONPATH but I set it in my
bash_profile (it being OS X).

The output on Linux (in this case Fedora 17):

['/home/miracle/.vim/bundle/Python-mode-klen',
'/home/miracle/.vim/bundle/Python-mode-klen/pylibs', '/home/miracle',
'/usr/lib64/python27.zi
p', '/usr/lib64/python2.7', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2',
'/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib64/p
ython2.7/lib-dynload',
'/home/miracle/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
'/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-
packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0',
'/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setu
ptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info',
'/home/miracle/.vim/bundle/vim-django/python']'

is as you would expect so I don't think it's a Vim problem.

Cheers,

Phil...

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