[Pythonmac-SIG] System python woes

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 2 Nov, 2007, at 5:09, Dav Clark wrote:

> I've seen a couple of posts now about difficulty using the system
> python in Leopard.  I wonder if anyone else has used the solution
> offered by Phillip Eby here:
>
> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#creating-a-virtual-python
>
> Basically, this wraps your system (or any) python and allows you to
> install libraries into that wrapped python - including ones that would
> override the system defaults. I suppose this strategy could even be
> "wrapped up" in a distributed application bundle of some sort.
>
> I've used this solution for my own development purposes, and it's
> worked fine.  I'd be curious to hear other's experiences or ideas.

Installing your own stuff as eggs should also do the trick. Possibly  
after upgrading setuptools (easy_install -U setuptools).

BTW. This behaviour is curtesy of setuptools, it does some nasty stuff  
in the .pth file it installs.

Ronald

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