On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:57 AM, M.-A. Lemburg
Tarek Ziadé wrote:
2009/8/4 M.-A. Lemburg
: Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Aug 3, 2009, at 4:45 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
It would be nice to have a user config *directory* for all Python config things, e.g. ~/.python/. Then it'd be natural to drop the ".py" prefix. Without the prefix, people would have a hard time connecting a .distutils.cfg in their home dir with Python.
Python already uses ~/.local for stuff. It should go in there.
You have a point there... we could put the user local config files into ~/.local/lib/python2.6/ and then name it distutils.cfg just like for the system-wide install.
So in that case I suppose I have to lookup at PYTHONUSERBASE as well, as done on site.py.
I also propose if that's the case, to add a function in site.py that returns USER_SITE and USER_BASE, so it can be used by site.addusersitepackages *and* by distutils here
+1
While you're at it, please also add a function that returns the global site-packages dir(s).
it's done, I'll just wait for svn to come back and post a clean diff at bugs.python.org for your reviews guys before I commit it. btw I don't like too much site.py's function names, they are not readable with no "_" at all to separate words: - addbuilddir - removeduppaths - addusersitepackages - ... I would love seeing new names there with underscore separated words while we're at it, and deprecate those, in any case, i've followed that file convention for now and I have added three functions: - getsitepackages - getusersitepackages - getuserbase Cheers Tarek
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