Comment 13 for bug 896659

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Patrick Storz (ede123) wrote :

As I wrote somewhere before I have Python on my search path as well and it works just fine (Windows 10, Inkscape 0.92.x and master).

Instead of quoting other bugs (some of which are probably unrelated and have different sources) it would help if you could instead add information on
- OS/Inkscape version used by those users that you support
- Python version(s) installed by those users
- Environment variables involved
  (and how they were modified in order to fix the problem)
- And most importantly as it can be the source for endless confusion:
  What exactly was the issue experienced by those users?
  Often "me to" comments conceal the specifics of the problematic
  environment when they are made as a result of a similar symptom
  that sometimes can have a completely different cause

This particular bug is about parallel Python installations potentially causing problems.
The error "The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py..." on the other hand can be caused by a lot of different issues not necessarily related to this problem.

As far as I can tell the issue tracked here is probably a duplicate of bug #1518278 (or the other way round) as it's specific to the environment variable PYTHONPATH which does *not* need to be set for a typical Python installation as far as I'm aware (at least on Windows it was never set on any of my machines, neither for Python 2 nor for Python 3) but maybe there's specific software / an install switch that sets it and tracking that down might help to find a solution for the users affected.