From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:30:45 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Suggest people use `PYTHONPATH` rather than adjusting `sys.path` internally.
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Suggest people use `PYTHONPATH` rather than adjusting `sys.path` internally.

The old method only worked out of the box if you were running Python
2.1 on a 586.  I imagine that is too small a slice of current users to
be worth hard coding ;).
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diff --git a/demo/python/cmd.py b/demo/python/cmd.py
index 83b5f5d..2ae90dd 100755
--- a/demo/python/cmd.py
+++ b/demo/python/cmd.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 #set the paths so python can find the comedi module
 import sys, os, string, struct, time
-sys.path.append('./build/lib.linux-i586-2.1')
 
 import comedi as c
 
diff --git a/demo/python/info.py b/demo/python/info.py
index e53d554..9845985 100755
--- a/demo/python/info.py
+++ b/demo/python/info.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 #set the paths so python can find the comedi module
 import sys, os, string
-sys.path.append('./build/lib.linux-i586-2.1')
 
 import comedi as c
 
diff --git a/demo/python/mmap.py b/demo/python/mmap.py
index 5803308..65f9f82 100755
--- a/demo/python/mmap.py
+++ b/demo/python/mmap.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import sys, os, string, struct, time, array
 sys.path.append(sys.path.pop(0))
 import mmap
 
-sys.path.append('./build/lib.linux-i586-2.1')
 import comedi as c
 
 #open a comedi device
diff --git a/swig/python/README.txt b/swig/python/README.txt
index 84654a4..3cca5d3 100644
--- a/swig/python/README.txt
+++ b/swig/python/README.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
     $ python setup.py build
     $ python setup.py install
 
+  If you want to test the wrappers before installing them, you will
+  need to set the `PYTHONPATH` environment variable so Python can find
+  the compiled modules.  On my system, that looks like
+    $ PYTHONPATH=build/lib.linux-i686-2.7/ ../../demo/python/info.py
+
 2) Using the module
   All the comedilib functions are translated directly to python
   function. The various comedi structs are now available as python