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

[Jack Jansen]

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 12:03 , Michael Hudson wrote:
> I don't see what's so very difficult about
>
> $ python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME

This is what you use if you have built Python yourself, and installed it 
in your home directory.

What I was referring to (as the setup that isn't very well supported 
right now) is the situation where the system admin has built and 
installed Python in, say, /usr/local, and you want to install a 
distutils-based packaged for your own private use.

Setting PYTHONPATH to be $HOME/lib/python-extensions or something 
similar is what people customarily do to get access to their private 
modules, but there is no standard, and hence also no way for distutils 
to find the pathname and provide an easy interface to do this.
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