System default sys.path

[David Lyon]

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:48:04 -0700, Brock Pytlik <bpytlik at Sun.COM> wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to find a way to get the value sys.path would have on a 
> particular system if python was started with an empty python path. I do 
> want it to include the site specific additional paths. I know I can hack 
> this information myself, 

Copy the code out from site.py...


> but I'd rather be able to get this on demand so 
> that if things change in the future, I don't have grovel around looking 
> for which directory string to change.

            for index in range(len(sys.path)):
                del sys.path[0]
            site.addsitedir(self.p.python_sitepackages_path)

> If nothing else, I think the following would satisfy my needs:
> 1) a variable containing the directories to use as a prefix (I think 
> sys.exec_prefix and sys.prefix are what I want here)
> 2) a variable containing the list of suffixes that are applies to the 
> prefixes, like lib/python<version>/site-packages
> 3) a way of handing the *.pth files

What way do you want to handle them?