Where are python module installed?

Diez B. Roggisch deets at nospam.web.de
Sun Sep 20 23:25:31 EDT 2009


Peng Yu schrieb:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Daniel Fetchinson
> <fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I configured python-2.6.2 with my own --prefix, then 'make' and 'make
>>> install'. I only find the following dirs and I don't find any python
>>> modules in the directory. Do python modules come with python-2.6.2?
>>>
>>> $ ls
>>> bin  include  lib  share
>> Try 'ls lib/python*' and also 'ls lib/python*/site-packages/'
> 
> Do I need to set PYTHONPATH to lib/python* because I changed the
> default 'prefix'?

It would have taken shorter to *try* that than it would to write this 
mail. So go, try it. Hint:


 >>> import foo
 >>> foo.__file__

Diez



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