gedit 'External Tools' plugin hashlib weirdness

Thu Sep 30 08:37:52 EDT 2010

FOUND IT!
I added the line
print >> f, '\n'.join(sorted(sys.path))
and diff:ed the files produced from terminal/launcher.
When using the launcher, changes to PYTHONPATH done in ~/.bashrc are
not picked up, and I apparently had an old reference to /usr/lib/
python2.4 sitting in there. Removed it, reloaded .bashrc, plugin now
works.
The question still remains why gnome disregards ~/.bashrc, but that's
a whole other topic. Thanks a bunch, you guys are ever so helpful.