[Python-Dev] PEP 250 buglet (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@effbot.org
Wed, 2 May 2001 20:20:24 +0200

PEP 250 suggests changing the sitedirs setup in site.py from

sitedirs = [prefix]

to

sitedirs == [makepath(prefix, "lib", "site-packages")]

on windows. it then goes on to say that

This change does not preclude packages using the current
location -- the change only adds a directory to sys.path, it
does not remove anything.

this isn't true (even after correcting the typo), since the sitedirs list isn't only added to the path; it's also used to look for PTH files. after this change, PTH files located under prefix will no longer be found.

the following change works a bit better:

sitedirs = [prefix, makepath(prefix, "lib", "site-packages")]

Cheers /F