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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:11:45+00:00

I’m trying to run Python scripts using Xcode’s User Scripts menu. The issue I’m

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I’m trying to run Python scripts using Xcode’s User Scripts menu.

The issue I’m having is that my usual os.sys.path (taken from ~/.profile) does not seem to be imported when running scripts from XCode the way it is when running them at the Terminal (or with IPython). All I get is the default path, which means I can’t do things like

#!/usr/bin/python import myScript  myScript.foo()

Where myScript is a module in a folder I’ve added to my path.

I can append a specific path to os.sys.path manually easily enough, but I have to do it in every single script for every single path I want to use modules from

Is there a way to set this up so it uses the same path I use everywhere else?

EDIT: After looking into things a bit more, it seems like scripts executed from Xcode use a completely different PATH than normal. The path I get by running a script in Xcode is:

PATH=/Developer/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

and I’m sure my regular path doesn’t have /Developer/usr/bin in it. Does anybody have any idea where this path is coming from?

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  1. On the mac, environment variables in your .profile aren’t visible to applications outside of the terminal.

    If you want an environment variable (like PATH, PYTHONPATH, etc) to be available to xcode apps, you should add it to a new plist file that you create at ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.

    See the EnvironmentVars doc on the apple developer website for more details.

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