Using Python for my web site

[paul kölle]

Cliff Wells wrote:

> For myself, I handle user-installation of TurboGears pretty much like I
> do all user-installed Python packages: using setuptools.  Any user who
> uses easy_install or 'python setup.py install' gets their packages
> automatically installed into a subdirectory of their home directory and
> that takes precedence over the system installed packages.  Works like a
> charm.
May I ask how you handle clashes with packages already installed in
site-packages? Once I tried something like ~/lib/python and set up
distutils accordingly, easy_install wouldn't work if the package was
installed system-wide...

thanks
 Paul