Where to keep local Python modules?

[Chris Green]

Roland Mueller <roland.em0001 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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']
> 
That's certainly a possibility, thanks.


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Chris Green
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