[Distutils] Req: easy_install.py --site-dirs

[Robert Kern]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:22 PM 7/16/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
> 
>>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>>At 09:01 PM 7/16/2005 -0700, Robert Kern wrote:
>>
>>>>Ah, now that's service! It works fine for me. I would suggest changing
>>>>the altinstall.pth example, though. Python doesn't seem to like
>>>>
>>>>  addsitedir('/Users/kern/lib/python2.4')
>>>>
>>>>Although it will be just happy with
>>>>
>>>>  import site; site.addsitedir('/Users/kern/lib/python2.4')
>>>
>>>Um, the example I put in the EasyInstall doc for --site-dirs was:
>>>
>>>         import os; addsitedir(os.path.expanduser('~/lib/python2.3'))
>>>
>>>So I'm not sure what you mean here.
>>
>>Eventually someone is going to want to do
>>
>>   addsitedir('/usr/local/stow/easy_install/lib/python2.4/site-packages')
> 
> But I didn't give that (or anything like it) as an example in the 
> documentation, so I still don't understand what it is you're asking me to do.

When I went to modify the example to suit my needs, I thought, "Okay, I 
don't really need to use os.path.expanduser(), so I'll just remove the 
'import os'." That didn't work. If instead the example had an explicit 
"import site; site.addsitedir(...)", I would never have tried the plain 
"addsitedir(...)" which doesn't work.

An explicit statement that the bare "addsitedir(...)" doesn't work would 
be fine, too.

-- 
Robert Kern
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