[Python-Dev] Added platform-specific directories to sys.path
Michael Hudson
mwh@python.net
22 Jul 2002 13:56:33 +0100
Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> writes:
> On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 12:03 , Michael Hudson wrote:
> > I don't see what's so very difficult about
> >
> > $ python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME
>
> This is what you use if you have built Python yourself, and installed it
> in your home directory.
In that case, the --prefix arg is unnecessary.
> What I was referring to (as the setup that isn't very well supported
> right now) is the situation where the system admin has built and
> installed Python in, say, /usr/local, and you want to install a
> distutils-based packaged for your own private use.
That's when I do the above.
> Setting PYTHONPATH to be $HOME/lib/python-extensions or something
> similar is what people customarily do to get access to their private
> modules, but there is no standard, and hence also no way for distutils
> to find the pathname and provide an easy interface to do this.
My setup requires setting $PYTHONPATH too, so it's not ideal, but it
works.
Cheers,
M.
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