May 1, 2009
3:15 p.m.
At 08:50 AM 5/1/2009 -0400, David Lyon wrote:
It seems you are right... But ... when I check more closely .. I see that the above code doesn't really display all the installed packages in the site-lib directory. There are some directories in there that don't get included in the results. I would love to know why. So I am realising that the above code doesn't give the right answers. I thought if programmers used distutils and so forth everything would work "properly".
The packages have to be installed using either setuptools, or Python 2.5+ distutils, in order for them to be listable via pkg_resources.