[Python-Dev] Added platform-specific directories to sys.path

[Michael Hudson]

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

> >>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> 
>     GvR> Traditionally, on Unix per-user extensions are done by
>     GvR> pointing PYTHONPATH to your per-user directory (-ies) in your
>     GvR> .profile.
> 
> Or adding them to sys.path via your $PYTHONSTARTUP file.

That only helps for interactive sessions...

> OTOH, it might be nice if the distutils `install' command had some
> switches to make installing in some of these common alternative
> locations a little easier.  That might dovetail nicely if/when we
> decide to add a site-updates directory to sys.path.

I don't see what's so very difficult about

$ python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME

but maybe I'm odd.

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  $ head -n 2 src/bash/bash-2.04/unwind_prot.c
   /* I can't stand it anymore!  Please can't we just write the
      whole Unix system in lisp or something? */
                                       -- spotted by Rich van der Hoff