Where best to put local modules?

[tinnews at isbd.co.uk]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at wtf.websiteburo.oops.com> wrote:
> tinnews at isbd.co.uk a écrit :
> > Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> >> tinnews at isbd.co.uk a écrit :
> >>> I'm just beginning to create some python modules for my own use and
> >>> I'm wondering where to put them.  Initially I have put them in
> >>> $HOME/bin and I have set PYTHONPATH to point to them there.  It all
> >>> seems to be OK but I was wondering if I might be storing up problems
> >>> for the future by putting python modules in with my odds and sods of
> >>> shell scripts etc. (and with my python 'main' scripts).
> >>>
> >>> Would I be better off putting the modules somewhere else, e.g.
> >>> somewhere like $HOME/lib/python?
> >>>
> >> If you're on a shared system and don't have admin access, this last 
> >> solution is probably the best - "pure" modules have nothing to do in a 
> >> bin/ directory indeed. Now if it's your own computer, why not just put 
> >> them in /path/to/python/libs/site-packages ?
> > 
> > There's one of each, a system where I have a shell account but not
> > root access  and my home system.
> 
> > There is a disadvantage of putting stuff in the site-packages directory
> > isn't there? If/when I upgrade the system the python modules I have added
> > will effectively not be visible to the upgraded system.  I know I can
> > copy them across to the new site-packages but it's just one more chore
> > when upgrading.  If they were in $HOME/lib/python this issue wouldn't
> > arise because /home stays the same across upgrades.
> > 
> Yes, true. OTHO, storing modules in your own $HOME/whatever and 
> modifying your $PYTHONPATH accordingly won't make the modules available 
> to other accounts. Which may or not be a problem (it happened to be one 
> for me...).

Probably not for me.  OK, thanks for all the responses, it seems there
isn't anything of huge consequence that I'm missing so I can just
decide what fits my situation best.

-- 
Chris Green