[Distutils] fwd: Distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() always returns absolute path in win32.

Andrew MacIntyre Andrew.MacIntyre@aba.gov.au
Mon Nov 25 17:51:42 2002


> Just after the branch for os.name == "mac", the OS/2 code
> also uses PREFIX:
> 
>     elif os.name == "os2":
>         if standard_lib:
>             return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib")
>         else:
>             return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")
> 
> Should this be fixed, too?

Only if you want to break Distutils on OS/2, which I'd prefer you 
didn't because it works nicely just as is.

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