autoconf: how to get python_libdir correctly?

[Martin Franklin]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:38, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Gernot Hillier <ghillie at suse.de> writes:
> 
> > Can I rely on sys.path[1] containing the system wide module directory?
> 
> Maybe.
> 
> > Other ideas?
> 
> >>> from distutils import sysconfig
> >>> sysconfig.get_config_var("LIBDEST")
> '/usr/lib/python2.2'
> 
> is my best effort.
> 

You could get it from a standard module such as 'os'

>>> import os
>>> os.__file__
'/usr/local/lib/python2.2/os.pyc'
>>>
>>> os.path.split(os.__file__)[0]
'/usr/local/lib/python2.2'
>>>

Martin