[Python-Dev] Usefulness of site-python? (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Oct 23 11:46:44 CEST 2013
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Hello,
I've just discovered there is a little-known feature in site.py: if a $PREFIX/lib/site-python exists (e.g. /usr/lib/site-python), it is added to sys.path in addition to the versioned site-packages. But only under Unix ("if os.sep == '/'").
Has anyone seen that feature in the real world? Debian doesn't use site-python, but its own /usr/share/pyshared.
For the record, it was added in b53347c8260e with the following commit message:
user: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> date: Wed Sep 03 21:41:30 1997 +0000 files: Lib/site.py description: Give in to Mike Meyer -- add both lib/python1.5/packages and lib/site-python to the path (if they exist). This is a reasonable compromise.
Regards
Antoine.
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