How do I setup python to always include my directory of utility files
<p>I have been programming in Python for a while now, and have created some utilities that I use a lot.  Whenever I start a new project, I start writing, and as I need these utilities I copy them from where ever I think the latest version of the particular utility is.  I have enough projects now that I am losing track of where the latest version is.  And, I will upgrade one of these scripts to fix a problem in a specific situation, and then wish it had propagated back to all of the other projects that use that script.</p>

<p>I am thinking the best way to solve this problem is to create a directory in the site-packages directory, and put all of my utility modules in there.  And then add this directory to the sys.path directory list.</p>

<p>Is this the best way to solve this problem?</p>

<p>How do modify my installation of Python so that this directory is always added to sys.path, and I don't have to explicitly modify sys.path at the beginning of each module that needs to use these utilities?</p>

<p>I'm using Python 2.5 on Windows XP, and Wing IDE.</p>
