[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie questions: import site failed and proper location of site-packages

[Christopher Barker]

Hunt Culver wrote:
> I was trying to put my own .py modules in the site-packages folder but 
> they were loading as expected,

> 'import site' failed; traceback:

odd -- is this what you get when you start up python all by itself:

$ python

> And back to the original question;  which site-package directory works 
> with MacPython 2.5?

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/

however, what I would do is use distutils to install your custom stuff, 
rather than doing it by hand. All you need is a simple setup.py file.

If your stuff is under active development, then use setuptools, and:

$ python setup.py --develop

that will put links to your stuff in site-packages, pointing to your 
code, so when you change things, the changes will show up everywhere.

-Chris



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