Where to keep local Python modules?

[Roland Mueller]

Hello,

pe 23. heinäk. 2021 klo 21.44 Chris Green (cl at isbd.net) kirjoitti:

> This isn't a question about how to set PYTHONPATH so that Python code
> can find imported modules, it's about what is a sensible layout for
> one's home directory - i.e. where to put Python modules.
>
> I'm running Linux and have a number of Python modules that are only
> used by my own code.  My top level Python code is all in ~/bin.  I'd
> prefer to separate the modules so that they don't clutter the name
> space.
>
> Currently I have my Python modules in a subdirectory of ~/bin and my
> Python path is set as:-
>
>     PYTHONPATH=/home/chris/bin/pymods
>
> Is this a reasonable approach?  Is there a 'standard' name for the
> directory containing modules, or a standard place for it?  (I don't
> mean a system-wide standard place, I mean a 'my' standard place).
>
> Under recent Linux distros there is $HOME/.local/ containing bin and lib
directories. May be it's ok to use this for user-specific python settings
under Linux.

E.g. in .bashrc
export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/.local/python

Result can be checked then in Python:
python
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/home/someuser/.local/lib/python', '/usr/lib64/python39.zip',
'/usr/lib64/python3.9', '/usr/lib64/python3.9/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages',
'/usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

BR,
Roland




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