[Python-Dev] Proposing PEP 376 (original) (raw)

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Apr 7 16:35:24 CEST 2010

At 04:01 PM 4/7/2010 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:

2010/4/2 P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>: [...] > > * Paths under the base installation location are relative to the base > * Paths not under the base installation location, but under the installation > prefix, are also stored relative to the base, IF the base location is a > subpath of the installation prefix > * All other paths are absolute. > > Where "base location" is the effective --install-lib directory, and prefix > is the effective --prefix. (Which default of course to site-package and > sys.prefix respectively, but the spec shouldn't be in terms of those > defaults.)

Just to make sure we agree on this: we use relative path if the file is in site-packages, or somewhere under sys.prefix. For the latter this is only if site-packages is under sys.prefix.

Um, sys.prefix, or the prefix set by "setup.py install --prefix" (which of course defaults to sys.prefix)?

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