[Distutils] Buildout: How to include installed packages in sys.path?

[Jim Fulton]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Gustavo Narea
<gustavonarea at 2degreesnetwork.com> wrote:
> Hello, Jim.
>
> Thank you very much for your response.
>
> I modified by recipe to use zc.recipe.egg like this:
> ====
> from zc.recipe.egg import Scripts
> # ...
> egg = Scripts(buildout, name, options)
> egg.working_set((distribution_name,))
> # ...
> do_something_useful(distribution_name)
> ====
>
> But still do_something_useful() is failing (distribution_name is not in
> sys.path) and I think that's because I didn't use pkg_resources as you
> suggested. I tried to do it, and read the documentation and source code
> for pkg_resources, but I was not able to find the functionality I should
> use.


Change your call to working_set to capture the working set:

  requirements, ws = egg.working_set((distribution_name,))

Then:

  for dist in ws:
      pkg_resources.working_set.add(dist)


Jim

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Jim Fulton