[Distutils] Installing a file into sitepackages

[Erik Bray]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Stuart Axon
<stuaxo2 at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:
> Hi,
>    In my project, I install a .pth file into site-packages, I use the data_files...  in Ubuntu this seems to work OK, but in a Windows VM the file doesn't seem to be being installed:
>
> setup(
>    ....
>    # Install the import hook
>     data_files=[
>         (site_packages_path, ["vext_importer.pth"] if environ.get('VIRTUAL_ENV') else []),
>     ],
> )
>
>
> - Is there a better way to do this ?
>
>
>
> I realise it's a bit odd installing a .pth - my project is to allow certain packages to use the system site packages from a virtualenv -
> https://github.com/stuaxo/vext

Hi Stuart,

I know this is old so sorry to anyone else.  But since no one
replied--I haven't looked too closely at what it is you're trying to
accomplish.  But whatever the reason, that seems like a
reasonable-enough way to me if you need to get a .pth file installed
into site-packages.  I'm not sure why it isn't working for you in
WIndows but it wasn't clear what the problem was.  I just tried this
in a Windows VM and it worked fine?

Best,
Erik