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

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sun May 4 18:19:17 CEST 2008

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

- for experienced users (Barry, skip, etc) that want ~/.local to be more easily accessible, creating a visible ~/local symlink is an utterly trivial exercise.

Our you can set the environment variable PYTHONUSERBASE to $HOME. PYTHONUSERBASE is the root directory for user specific data:

def addusersitepackages(known_paths): """Add a per user site-package to sys.path

Each user has its own python directory with site-packages in the
home directory.

USER_BASE is the root directory for all Python versions

USER_SITE is the user specific site-packages directory

USER_SITE/.. can be used for data.
"""
global USER_BASE, USER_SITE
env_base = os.environ.get("PYTHONUSERBASE", None)

def joinuser(*args):
    return os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(*args))

#if sys.platform in ('os2emx', 'riscos'):
#    # Don't know what to put here
#    USER_BASE = ''
#    USER_SITE = ''
if os.name == "nt":
    base = os.environ.get("APPDATA") or "~"
    USER_BASE = env_base if env_base else joinuser(base, "Python")
    USER_SITE = os.path.join(USER_BASE,
                             "Python" + sys.version[0] + sys.version[2],
                             "site-packages")
else:
    USER_BASE = env_base if env_base else joinuser("~", ".local")
    USER_SITE = os.path.join(USER_BASE, "lib",
                             "python" + sys.version[:3],
                             "site-packages")

if os.path.isdir(USER_SITE):
    addsitedir(USER_SITE, known_paths)
return known_paths

Christian

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