[Pythonmac-SIG] pychecker

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 11:58 PM, Robert Kern wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Do this instead:
>> # Begin File
>> [install]
>> install-scripts=/usr/local/bin
>> install-data=/usr/local/share
>> # End File
>> Screwing with purelib and platlib is a terrible idea if you ever have 
>> multiple versions of Python installed, because they will all use the 
>> same .pydistutils.cfg.  The standard Python 2.3.0 already puts its 
>> purelib and platlib there anyway (indirectly via symlink, but it 
>> still goes there), so it's not ever going to actually do anything 
>> helpful.
>
> Okay. At some point, that symlink got blown away on my machine, so I 
> put in the install-*lib entries. <fixing up the symlink now>

If that symlink got blown away, /Library/Python/2.3 shouldn't have 
ended up in sys.path (unless you jigger that in elsewhere).

wxPython is the likely culprit.  Some of the wxPython installers seem 
to enjoy breaking Python :)  I'm pretty sure this has been fixed since, 
though.

-bob