[Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008

[Christian Heimes]

Nick Coghlan schrieb:
> - for experienced users (Barry, skip, etc) that want ~/.local to be more
> easily accessible, creating a visible ~/local symlink is an utterly
> trivial exercise.

Our you can set the environment variable PYTHONUSERBASE to $HOME.
PYTHONUSERBASE is the root directory for user specific data:

def addusersitepackages(known_paths):
    """Add a per user site-package to sys.path

    Each user has its own python directory with site-packages in the
    home directory.

    USER_BASE is the root directory for all Python versions

    USER_SITE is the user specific site-packages directory

    USER_SITE/.. can be used for data.
    """
    global USER_BASE, USER_SITE
    env_base = os.environ.get("PYTHONUSERBASE", None)

    def joinuser(*args):
        return os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(*args))

    #if sys.platform in ('os2emx', 'riscos'):
    #    # Don't know what to put here
    #    USER_BASE = ''
    #    USER_SITE = ''
    if os.name == "nt":
        base = os.environ.get("APPDATA") or "~"
        USER_BASE = env_base if env_base else joinuser(base, "Python")
        USER_SITE = os.path.join(USER_BASE,
                                 "Python" + sys.version[0] + sys.version[2],
                                 "site-packages")
    else:
        USER_BASE = env_base if env_base else joinuser("~", ".local")
        USER_SITE = os.path.join(USER_BASE, "lib",
                                 "python" + sys.version[:3],
                                 "site-packages")

    if os.path.isdir(USER_SITE):
        addsitedir(USER_SITE, known_paths)
    return known_paths


Christian