From 6f9f09981ce956ac258f6dbf1ab61819b4b54cbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alex2awesome <alex2awesome@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 12:14:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Update __init__.py

Allow for flexible path setting
---
 retriv/__init__.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/retriv/__init__.py b/retriv/__init__.py
index 9cd61cd..af27bdd 100755
--- a/retriv/__init__.py
+++ b/retriv/__init__.py
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 
 # Set environment variables ----------------------------------------------------
 os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false"
-os.environ["RETRIV_BASE_PATH"] = str(Path.home() / ".retriv")
-
+if "RETRIV_BASE_PATH" not in os.environ: # allow user to set a different path in .bash_profile
+    os.environ["RETRIV_BASE_PATH"] = str(Path.home() / ".retriv")
 
 def set_base_path(path: str):
     os.environ["RETRIV_BASE_PATH"] = path