what happened to sys.prefix in 2.0?

[Chris Gehlker]

And on OS X...
[localhost:~] chrisg% python
Python 2.0 (#3, 10/22/00, 12:04:10)
[GCC Apple DevKit-based CPP 5.0] on Darwin1.2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.prefix
'/usr/local'
>>> sys.exec_prefix
'/usr/local'
>>> 


On 11/6/00 1:49 PM, in article B62C84D2.4A7F%bob at wildthink.com, "Robert L
Hicks" <bob at wildthink.com> wrote:

> Works on the Mac too...
> 
> Python 2.0 (#71, Oct 22 2000, 22:09:24)  [CW PPC w/GUSI2 w/THREADS]
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>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.prefix
> 'MACOS9:Applications:Python 2.0:'
>>>> sys.exec_prefix
> 'MACOS9:Applications:Python 2.0:'
>>>> 
> 
>> From: Guido van Rossum <guido at beopen.com>
>> Organization: @Home Network
>> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
>> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 19:55:39 GMT
>> Subject: Re: what happened to sys.prefix in 2.0?
>> 
>> Bill Janssen <w.janssen at ieee.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Well, I decided to jump right from 1.5.2 to 2.0.  Perhaps a mistake.
>> 
>> No.  For mistakes, try 1.6. :-)
>> 
>>> I find that a number of config things seem to have broken, since 2.0
>>> doesn't seem to export sys.prefix or sys.exec_prefix.  Any idea where
>>> I can find these?  I grepped src/Misc/NEWS for them, but no luck.
>> 
>> Huh?  They exist just fine for me:
>> 
>> Python 2.0 (#254, Oct 18 2000, 10:57:31)
>> [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
>> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import sys
>>>>> sys.prefix
>> '/usr/local'
>>>>> sys.exec_prefix
>> '/usr/local'
>>>>> 
>> 
>> Similar on Windows.
>> 
>> On what platform did you compile?
>> 
>> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 



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