This is not recommended, as it hard-codes a path and makes it difficult to run the script elsewhere, but you can do >>> import sys >>> sys.path.insert(0,’/home/anand/’) >>> print(sys.path) [‘/home/anand/’, ”, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/_pdbpp_path_hack’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/goose-0.0.1-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jieba-0.33-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cssselect-0.9.1-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nanoservice-0.1.5-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nanomsg-1.0a2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/msgpack_python-0.4.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DecisionTree-2.2.5-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nudepy-0.2-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wsgilog-0.3-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/distribute-0.7.3-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL-1.1.7-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQL_python-1.2.5-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/munkres-1.0.7-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/parsedatetime-1.4-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/argparse-1.3.0-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tusker-0.1-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/SQLAlchemy-1.0.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy-1.9.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/turkic-0.2.5-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scikits.bootstrap-0.3.2-py2.7.egg’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyvision-0.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg’, ‘/home/anand/playspace/languages/python_pkgs/ets’, ‘/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Scrapy-1.1.0dev1-py2.7.egg’, … Read more