[Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008 (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Sun May 4 22:56:34 CEST 2008

On 2008-05-04 21:57, Christian Heimes wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg schrieb:

PYTHONPATH is lacking one feature which is important for lots of packages and setuptools. The directories in PYTHONPATH are just added to sys.path. But setuptools require a site package directory. Maybe a new env var PYTHONSITEPATH could solve the problem. We don't need another setup variable for this. Just place a well-known module into the site-packages/ directory and then query it's file attribute, e.g.

site-packages/sitepackages.py The module could even include a few helpers to query various settings which apply to the site packages directory, e.g. sitepackages.getdir() sitepackages.listpackages() sitepackages.listmodules() etc. I don't see how it is going to solve the use case "Add another site package directory when I don't have write access to the global site package directory and I don't want to modify my apps."

No, but it's going to solve the issue "which of the sys.path directories is to be considered the site packages" directory. I was under the impression that this is what you were after.

Just in case you don't know...

python setup.py install --home=~ will install to ~/lib/python The problem is not getting the packages installed in a non-admin location. It's about Python looking in a non-admin location per default (as well as in the site-packages location). I know the --home option. For one the --home option is Unix only and not supported on Windows Also the --user option takes all options of my PEP 370 user site directory into account, includinge the PYTHONUSERBASE env var.

Ok. Just wanted to mention that there is a precedent in distutils for doing user home directory installations.

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