[Pythonmac-SIG] What's MacPython missing?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 13:44 America/New_York, Bugbee, Larry  
wrote:

> The nuisance item at the top of my list is....  a site-packages link.
>
> In the same way as we have links in Python.framework for Headers and  
> Resources to their equivalents in the 'current' version, I'd like to  
> see a link to the 'current' site-packages.  This would provide a  
> simple programmatic way to get there without first having to determine  
> which is the current version and construct the path accordingly.
>
> Specialized, and perhaps further down the list is Orange, a machine  
> learning/data mining library.  http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/orange/

(disclaimer: never used Orange, don't really know much about it)  
OrangeWidgets is dependent on PyQt.. I don't know if you need that for  
it to be useful though, but PyQt definitely does not exist for Qt/Mac  
yet.

As far as locating site-packages programmatically goes..

[crack:~] bob% python -c "import distutils.sysconfig;print  
distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()"
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site- 
packages

-bob