[Tutor] site-packages

[linda.s]

On 3/25/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, linda.s wrote:
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> > I downloaded some modules and were told to put under
> > *\Python24\Lib\site-packages
>
> Hi Linda,
>
> Out of curiosity, which module?  If we're being asked to copy files
> manually into site-packages, we should do a double check on this, because
> that's a slightly odd thing to do these days.  A well-packaged module uses
> the Distutils system:
>
>     http://docs.python.org/lib/module-distutils.html
>
> and will typically include a 'setup.py' program that knows how to relocate
> that module to the right location, so that you don't have to worry about
> the details.
>
>
> > I use mac machine and run Python 2.4 but why i could not find any folder
> > named Python24. Also, my Mac machine has a default Python 2.3, I do not
> > see any folder named Python2.3
>
> If you really need to do this, run Python 2.4 and then do the following:
>
> ######
> import distutils.sysconfig
> print distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()
> ######
>
> This should print out the path that you're looking for.  For example, on
> my Python 2.3 installation (the default on Mac OS X):
>
> ######
> mumak:~ dyoo$ python
> Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import distutils.sysconfig
> >>> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()
> '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages'
> ######
>
> So that's the directory that third-party libraries will live on my system.
>
>
> But again, please tell us what modules you're trying to install, before
> you go ahead and copy things over.  Manually having to copy these files
> into site-packages/ is bug-prone.  You shouldn't have to do this if the
> module developers have done their due dilligence by including a "setup.py"
> distutils installer program.

It is from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/mplot3D
On the webpage, it says " To begin, download the module from
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl3d.zip Extract the files and
place them in a folder named "mpl3d" in *\Python24\Lib\site-packages"