type import sys and press enter type for in sys pathand press enter python automatically indents the next line for you the sys path attribute always contains listing of default paths type print(pand press enter twice you see listing of the path informationas shown in figure - your listing may be different from the one shown in figure - depending on your platformthe version of python you have installedand the python features you have installed figure - the sys path attribute contains listing of the individual paths for your system the sys path attribute is reliable but may not always contain every path that python can see if you don' see needed pathyou can always check in another place that python looks for information the following steps show how to perform this task type import os and press enter type os environ['pythonpath'split(os pathsepand press enter when you have pythonpath environment variable definedyou see list of pathsas shown in figure - howeverif you don' have the environment variable definedyou see an error message instead notice that both the sys path and the os environ['pythonpath'attributes contain the :\bp dentry in this case the sys path attribute doesn' include the split(function