[Python-Dev] PEP 370 extras

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Brett Cannon schrieb:
>
> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>  >> I'm working on some extra cool and useful additions to PEP 370. It's
>  >>  going to make compilation and usage of custom libraries very easy. Sit
>  >>  back and watch the slide show. :)
>  >>
>  >>  The site module has two new options. The --user-base option prints the
>  >>  path to the user base directory to stdout.
>  >>
>  >
>  > What is the second option?
>
>  --user-site
>

Ah, OK.

>  $ ~/dev/python/trunk/python -m site --help
>  /home/heimes/dev/python/trunk/Lib/site.py [--user-base] [--user-site]
>
>  Without arguments print some useful information
>  With arguments print the value of USER_BASE and/or USER_SITE separated
>  by ':'.
>
>  Exit codes with --user-base or --user-site:
>   0 - user site directory is enabled
>   1 - user site diretory is disabled by user

Typo: missing a "c" in "directory".

>   2 - uses site directory is disabled by super user
>       or for security reasons
>   >2 - unknown error
>
>

Yeah, they should both be useful for various path-related stuff.

-Brett