linux & users' python-extensions

[Michael Hudson]

pawelstol at poczta.onet.pl (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_Sto=B3owski?=) writes:

> I've installed Python into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/Python2.0.
> Now I'd like to allow an ordinary user to maintain his own python-extensions
> modules (written in C/C++). So, each user's python programs should see
> the global modules hierarchy, but also allow the user to import his own
> modules and link coresponding C/C++ modules, when needed. Is it possible
> without cluttering global Python-configuration each time an user needs
> to play with his new extension-module? 

You could put something like

sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"],"lib/python2.0")

is site.py.

HTH,
M.

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