[C++-sig] Running python using Boost.Python modules

[Jonathan Brandmeyer]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 14:36 -0400, Tom Denniston wrote:
> Is there a way to run python so that it picks up the C++ modules
> compiled using Boost.Python and bjam.  I saw in the examples that you
> could run python from a bjam target such as the following:
> 
> # Declare a test for the extension module
> boost-python-runtest test1
>     :  # Python test driver
>     src/python/test_getting_started1.py
>     # extension modules to use
>     <pyd>getting_started1 ;
>     
>     
> 
> But I didn't see anything on how to run a python process independent
> of a bjam target.  one possibility is to copy the modules into the
> python installation but i would prefer to use the libraries from
> python without having and side efffect on my python installation.
> 
> Would appreciate any thoughts or direction toward the appropriate
> documentation.  I might just be missing something really obvious here.

See sys.path in the Python Library Reference, and Installing Python
Modules, section 4.1.

HTH,
-Jonathan