[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie questions: import site failed and proper location of site-packages
Christopher Barker
Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
Wed Nov 5 23:02:22 CET 2008
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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