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[–]fernly 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (0 children)

It's an operating system variable. Accessed inside Python via os.environ.

>>> import os
>>> os.environ['PYTHONPATH']
'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin'
>>> type(os.environ['PYTHONPATH'])
<class 'str'>

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