Index: /issm/trunk-jpl/test/NightlyRun/runme.py
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--- /issm/trunk-jpl/test/NightlyRun/runme.py	(revision 12657)
+++ /issm/trunk-jpl/test/NightlyRun/runme.py	(revision 12658)
@@ -38,8 +38,9 @@
 import netCDF4
 import sys
-from parallelrange import parallelrange
-from IdToName import IdToName
 
 def runme(id=None,exclude=None,benchmark='nightly',procedure='check',output='none',rank=1,numprocs=1):
+
+	from parallelrange import parallelrange
+	from IdToName import IdToName
 
 	#Get ISSM_DIR variable
@@ -247,4 +248,15 @@
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
+	if 'PYTHONSTARTUP' in os.environ:
+		PYTHONSTARTUP=os.environ['PYTHONSTARTUP']
+		print 'PYTHONSTARTUP =',PYTHONSTARTUP
+		if os.path.exists(PYTHONSTARTUP):
+			try:
+				execfile(PYTHONSTARTUP)
+			except Exception as e:
+				print "PYTHONSTARTUP error: ",e
+		else:
+			print "PYTHONSTARTUP file '%s' does not exist." % PYTHONSTARTUP
+
 	import argparse
 	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='RUNME - test deck for ISSM nightly runs')