Problem with .pth files under linux

[John Roth]

"Andrew MacIntyre" <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> wrote in message
news:mailman.1005760821.4088.python-list at python.org...
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Fernando [ISO-8859-1] Pérez wrote:

> I'm sure this is simple and stupid, but I still don't know what's
going on. I
> have some modules without a package structure (no __init__.py) but
which have
> a .pth file. Specifically, Numeric. It comes in its own directory:
> site-packages/Numeric, and in site-packages I have a file Numeric.pth
whose
> contents is simply 'Numeric' (no quotes).
>
> Yet import Numeric doesn't work! I solved it by hand-coding Numeric
into
> sys.path, but it annoys me and I have the same problem with other
modules
> I'll need to use soon.

Is site-packages in sys.path? (or added to sys.path by site.py?)

I believe you have to move the .pth file into your python path. There's
doucmentation somewhere about this, but it's well hidden, and it
differs between xNIX and Windows.

John Roth