[Python-Dev] Usefulness of site-python?

Hello, I've just discovered there is a little-known feature in site.py: if a $PREFIX/lib/site-python exists (e.g. /usr/lib/site-python), it is added to sys.path in addition to the versioned site-packages. But only under Unix ("if os.sep == '/'"). Has anyone seen that feature in the real world? Debian doesn't use site-python, but its own /usr/share/pyshared. For the record, it was added in b53347c8260e with the following commit message: user: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> date: Wed Sep 03 21:41:30 1997 +0000 files: Lib/site.py description: Give in to Mike Meyer -- add *both* lib/python1.5/packages and lib/site-python to the path (if they exist). This is a reasonable compromise. Regards Antoine.