[Python-ideas] Add a site.cfg to keep a persistent list of paths (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Oct 21 14:17:50 CEST 2010


On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:21:56 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 21 October 2010 00:35, Floris Bruynooghe <flub at devork.be> wrote:

> I've read your and Ian's responses and still don't understand what > setup.py develop brings to the party which can't be done with simple > PYTHONPATH. I'm glad it's not just me!

How does PYTHONPATH work with C extensions? Besides, how do you manage your PYTHONPATH when you have multiple packages in "develop" mode, depending on each other?

Regards

Antoine.



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