Problem with .pth files under linux

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Fernando [ISO-8859-1] Pérez wrote:

> I'm sure this is simple and stupid, but I still don't know what's going on. I
> have some modules without a package structure (no __init__.py) but which have
> a .pth file. Specifically, Numeric. It comes in its own directory:
> site-packages/Numeric, and in site-packages I have a file Numeric.pth whose
> contents is simply 'Numeric' (no quotes).
>
> Yet import Numeric doesn't work! I solved it by hand-coding Numeric into
> sys.path, but it annoys me and I have the same problem with other modules
> I'll need to use soon.

Is site-packages in sys.path? (or added to sys.path by site.py?)

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