[Pythonmac-SIG] Path Issues when using Swig (and OSX Leopard)

[Robin Dunn]

Christopher Barker wrote:
> newbie73 wrote:
>> I installed v 2.5 of MacPython from python.org.  I am able to build lots of
>> other packages using this setup, where packages are installed here:
>> /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
>>
>> I cannot, however, find the include directories for the macpython
>> installation.  Can anybody help me locate where they would be?  I am trying
>> to follow the example in the swig.org tutorial 
> 
> the SWIG tutorial is out of date -- the "right" way to compile 
> extensions for python is to use the distutils -- distutils will figure 
> out all the paths, flags, etc for you. The latest version of the SWIG 
> docs has instructions:
> 
> http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Python.html#Python_nn6
> 
> Or look at various distutils instructions.

Or, if you really need to know where it is, you can just ask Python:

python -c "import sys,os; print os.path.join(sys.prefix,
'include/python%s' % sys.version[:3])"

;-)

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Robin Dunn
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