Hi Mark On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:20:50AM +0100, Mark Summerfield wrote:
I have downloaded a package from PyPI that uses distutils setup.py. When I run it with -h it shows options for building and installing, but does not appear to have an option for installation in my per user site packages directory (see PEP 370).
(Or is there such an option that I've missed?)
$ python2.6 setup.py --help install Shows you that you can use $ python2.6 setup.py install --user for this. You have to be using python2.6 or higher though. Note that this question doesn't really belong on python-ideas, it should have been posted to distutils-sig or python-list (comp.lang.python). But proposing a --local does make the line blurred ;-). Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org