[Pythonmac-SIG] I have Python 2.4.1 but no site packages. What did I miss?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Louis Pecora wrote:

> A few months ago I installed (at the prodding of gurus here) Python
> 2.4.1.  I tried to use it today (haven't used it for a while since the
> install) and it cannot find Numeric.  I checked and I have no 2.4
> directory (under /Library) for site packages.  They're all in the 2.3
> directory.  Likewise I have no ~/Library/python/2.4 directory only
> ~/Library/python/2.3 for my .pth file.   Of course, if I run Python  
> 2.3
> it finds all the modules and my stuff.

site-packages for official builds are in the framework itself.  Only  
Apple's builds have site-packages at /Library/Python.

> Should I just create the 2.4 directories and copy the stuff from 2.3
> into 2.4?

Creating the ~/Library/Python/2.4 directory is optional, you can go  
ahead and do that.  Copying 2.3 stuff over is not going to work though.

-bob