Andrew Kuchling wrote:

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I browsed the bug and patch managers and didn't see any patches or bug reports matching what I believe to be a bug in the get_python_lib() function in the distutils sysconfig.py file in the win32 version of Python 2.2.2. When os.name == "nt" and sys.version

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2.2, get_python_lib() always returns the absolute path when the

plat_specific argument is true. Maybe I'm showing my ignorance but I'm guessing that get_python_lib(1,0,'') should return the relative path as it does for all the other cases.

I suppose this is for Thomas Heller to answer. Perhaps the bdist_wininst command relies on this.

Why is it relevant whether get_python_lib() returns a relative or an absolute path ?

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*** sysconfig.py~ Tue Oct 8 19:46:04 2002 --- sysconfig.py Mon Nov 25 11:05:02 2002

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*** 110,116 **** if sys.version < "2.2": return prefix else: ! return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")

  elif os.name == "mac":
      if plat_specific:

--- 110,116 ---- if sys.version < "2.2": return prefix else: ! return os.path.join(prefix, "Lib", "site-packages")

  elif os.name == "mac":
      if plat_specific:

At the start of this function, there are the lines:

if prefix is None:
    prefix = plat_specific and EXEC_PREFIX or PREFIX

So using PREFIX certainly looks incorrect; 'prefix' uses EXEC_PREFIX or PREFIX as appropriate. Can someone on NT please verify?

Just after the branch for os.name == "mac", the OS/2 code also uses PREFIX:

elif os.name == "os2":
    if standard_lib:
        return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib")
    else:
        return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")

Should this be fixed, too?

--amk (www.amk.ca) Abstraction is one of those notions that Python tosses out the window, yet expresses very well. -- Gordon McMillan, 6 Jan 2000

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