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

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Wed Apr 7 18:33:04 CEST 2010

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:

so for the PEP :

- sys.prefix -> the installation prefix provided by --prefix at installation time - site-packages -> the installation libdir, provided by --install-lib at installation time

How do you actually calculate site-packages? Would you store the directory name somewhere? Would you import the module and look at os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(module.file))? Or just scan to see where the module would be?

If you store the directory name somewhere then you have another absolute path. This is why, for simplicity, I thought it should be relative to the directory where the record file is (lots of extraneous ../, but the most obvious meaning of a relative filename).

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