[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Added platform-specific directories to sys.path

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    GvR> Traditionally, on Unix per-user extensions are done by
    GvR> pointing PYTHONPATH to your per-user directory (-ies) in your
    GvR> .profile.

Or adding them to sys.path via your $PYTHONSTARTUP file.

OTOH, it might be nice if the distutils `install' command had some
switches to make installing in some of these common alternative
locations a little easier.  That might dovetail nicely if/when we
decide to add a site-updates directory to sys.path.

-Barry