Umm, what am I missing? The change to site.py was so simple you could have committed it yourself quicker than it took to write the above. I committed it a few minutes ago. If something else is needed, someone else will have to do it (or explain it to me in detail so precise they could do it

From: M.-A. Lemburg [mailto:mal@lemburg.com] Tim Peters wrote: themself

10x quicker <wink>).

Cool, but what about the changes needed in distutils to actually utilize the new directory and the changes to the Windows installer to create the directory at installation time ?

The patch I sent along with the final version of the PEP included the distutils change (it's only one line, but it's on the PC at home, so I can't quote it here). I assume that the Python install should ensure that the site-packages exists (it does at the moment) so I don't see a need for the wininst installer to check. Paul. PS [After a quick rummage...] I *think* the following patch is what is needed for distutils: I haven't tested it, though, so it would be better to check the original version (which I did test...) --- sysconfig.py.orig Thu Apr 19 10:24:24 2001 +++ sysconfig.py Thu Jul 12 09:32:34 2001 @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ elif os.name == "nt": if standard_lib: - return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib") + return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages") else: return prefix