Where best to put local modules?

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Dec 19 13:32:19 EST 2007


En Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:02:20 -0300, <tinnews at isbd.co.uk> escribi�:

> 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?

Try lib/pythonX.X/site-packages, which is already on sys.path so you don't  
have to set PYTHONPATH

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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