Installing Python Apps on Mac Lion

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<2ffee45b-8987-4fb4-8c8b-c1eed728e890 at glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com
>,
 JKPeck <JKPeck at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Lion version of the OS on the Mac comes with Python 2.7 installed, but it 
> is in /System/Library/Frameworks/..., and this area is not writable by third 
> party apps.
> 
> So is there a consensus on what apps that typically install under the Python 
> site-packages directory should do in this situation?  Installing Python from 
> python.org puts it in the writable area /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework.
> 
> So, what should a Python app installer do?

I don't know about Lion but the Apple-supplied Pythons in previous 
versions of OS X (10.6 and 10.5) install site packages by default into 
/Library/Python.  If you use the Distutils defaults with the system 
Pythons in10.7, they will likely do the same.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org