On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Why not os.exists() ?
Probably better :-)
Wouldn't checking for the lib file in either lib64 or lib be more reliable ?
That might be better. I don't know whether it's possible that more than one python is installed (one in /lib and one in /lib64).
Hmm, this is not entirely correct, e.g. Suse 9.2 puts the site-packages directory and all the other .py files into /usr/lib64 as well - not only the platforma dependent files.
Not sure what other AMD64 distros do... but I have a feeling the /lib/ should *always* be replaced by unix_platlib.
It looks like RedHat/Fedora patch their package to only put the platform specific files in /lib64 (that's how I made my patch). Perhaps this isn't a good idea to do then :-( I wonder whether it would be possible for distribution to set these values somewhere. Couldn't python have a sys function to return its Makefile? (anyway, I've managed to get my setup.py to work with the built-in distutils...) Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jeremy@jeremysanders.net> http://www.jeremysanders.net/ Cambridge, UK Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053