<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><blockquote style="font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_33_1391594572252_71"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_7_2_33_1391594572252_72"><div class="y_msg_container"><br>> And after 15 years of using Python I didn't know it existed until now!<br>> I've always used a local directory and added it to PYTHONPATH...<br><br>Then maybe you're also not aware of the --user option for<br>pip/easy_install. That's how I discovered the user
site-packages<br>directory.</div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">To be honest I've not really used pip or easy_install much.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Most of what I do uses the standard library. The only extra packages </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">I use are BeautifulSoup(very rarely) and wxPython(also rarely)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">and TurboGears and Django once each.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">In fact, one of the things I'm playing with just now is the whole </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">distutils packaging thing
and reading up on eggs etc. Frankly it's </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">all a bit of a mess and I hope the promised improvements from </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Python 3.4 onwards will make it a lot less messy!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Alan g.</span></div> </div></body></html>