IMHO all this should be hidden for the user. We are talking here about a very basic action: set a pythonpath variable and the user has all the rights to install modules all over the machine. If this is a licence matter, take into account that basically all modules available in pypi are excluded here and this is a show-stop for any development, moreover when we are talking about a product based in python language from the user perspective.
Take into account that the inductive university does not even foresee the user knows python because it even includes a 1st lecture of what it is python and how even to make a simply print statement within Ignition.
This is great, but the course is supposed to put people to the level of using ignition but people cannot do it because the simplest and more meanful action of python, import a module, cannot be done from the script console provided in default by ignition. And this is not good, because then there is a enormous gap between what the course claims and what Ignition in reality requires in order to be use. And this is not my case, because I knew python before.
Users should not know whether they use python or jpython… users know what the designer provides them with and the designer provides a script console (claimed at the course to be a python console) and that script console does not allow the exporting of a python module. And this is a enormous show-stop.
If we start from a python print statement level in a course then we cannot come to: distinctions between python and jpython (Ignition designer does not give you this chance and the course does not even mention it), licences matters… for something so basic as exporting a module.
Unless I am passing something and I am not realizing any important point, but the most basic actions require the most basic setups.
So if I want to use the pytz module or any other pypi available module in an easy way what Ignition proposes me?.
If this line that any python user writes in their codes:
os.environ[“PYTHONPATH”] = “bla/bla/bla/lib/lib64/python2.7/site-packages”
requires more than a line of code in Ignition or more than a 20seconds video in the Inductive university then we have a big problem, right?