sys.path in python3.3

[Nicholas Cole]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article
> <CAAu18hc8tKnuCqcoiOVyPa1yc9QgvU-BqUOe91r7G3Ye8HG9NA at mail.gmail.com>,
>  Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>> > In article
>> > <CAAu18hc7katbONp7A+-A1pyE8BYySgfaC4FHHKSD8peeQjLMbg at mail.gmail.com>,
>> >  Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> In all previous versions of python, I've been able to install packages
>> >> into the path:
>> >>
>> >> ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages
>> >>
>> >> but in the rc builds of python 3.3 this is no longer part of sys.path.
>> >>
>> >> Before I go hacking the install, is there a reason that this path was
>> >> removed?  Is there a recommended way to get it back, or is this a
>> >> gentle way of pushing us all to use virtualenv rather than installing
>> >> user-specific packages?
>> >
>> > It should be working if you are using an OS X framework build.  What is
>> > the value of sys.path?
>>
>> I'm using the compiled version supplied by python.org.
>
> The directory needs to exist otherwise the path is not included (see
> site.py).

It certainly does exist. Distutils will happily put packages into it,
but import won't find them.

N.