title: Setting up pythonpath in OS X
body: <p>A new PHP developer here trying to learn Python/Django using the "Tango With Django" tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>I'm up to section 2.2.2 where I have to set up the pythonpath and I'm having the following problem:</p>
  
  <p>When I type the following in the terminal: <code>echo $pythonpath</code> I get a blank line instead of the correct path.</p>
  
  <p>I followed the troubleshooting steps and found where the site-packages directory is:
  <code>Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages</code></p>
  
  <p>Per their instructions I updated my <code>.bashrc</code> file so it looks like this now:</p>
  
  <pre><code>PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.rvm/bin # Add RVM to PATH for scripting
  ### Added by the Heroku Toolbelt
  export PATH="/usr/local/heroku/bin:$PATH"
  export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For a reason I don't understand I'm still getting a blank line when I <code>echo $pythonpath</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Because I was having difficulty getting the <code>pythonpath</code> set up I skipped it, but then had problems installing Setuptools, Pip, and Django.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Any resources I can look at beside Tango with Django?</p>