[Distutils] Installed Packages..

[David Lyon]

Hi Tarek,
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:48:32 +0200, Tarek Ziadé  wrote:
>> --code-------
>>
>> import pkg_resources
>>
>> ws = pkg_resources.WorkingSet()
>>
>> for i in ws:
>>    s = str(i)
>>    print s
>>
>> --end code---
..
>>> No, you just have a list of relative paths to installed package there
>>> that's it.
It seems you are right...
But ... when I check more closely .. I see that the above code doesn't 
really display all the installed packages in the site-lib directory.
There are some directories in there that don't get included in the
results. I would love to know why.
So I am realising that the above code doesn't give the right answers.
I thought if programmers used distutils and so forth everything would
work "properly".
or is this just an issue with pkg_resources ?
Are these failures of the python subsystem? 
I would love to know...
David

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