how do I add site-packages on Windows?

[Chris Gonnerman]

I've never understood why this is done this way.  In site.py,
the sys.path setup only adds site-packages on Unixoid OS's.
On Windows it isn't done.

You can add the line to site.py

    addsitedir(r"c:\python21\site-packages")

(for instance) after the section where the sys.path is configured,
but unfortunately Distutils won't obey this, so if you use any
autoinstallers (setup.py) the modules won't go in site-packages.

Does ANYONE know why this decision was made?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Max M" <maxm at normik.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:15 AM
Subject: how do I add site-packages on Windows?


> I have had this problem before, but never really got a working solution.
>
> If I put packages into:
>
> <PYTHON>\Lib\site-packages\
>
> And then I try to use it from ie. iis (Windows naturally) Python cannot
find
> my packages.
>
> What would I need to do to make Python search in site-package
automatically?
>
> Should I put them into "Plat-Win" instead, or is that used for something
> else ???
>
> regards Max M
>
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