Jeremy Sanders wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Why not os.exists() ?
s/os.exists/os.path.exists > Probably better :-) > >> Wouldn't checking for the lib file in either lib64 >> or lib be more reliable ? > > That might be better. I don't know whether it's possible that more than > one python is installed (one in /lib and one in /lib64). That would certainly be possible. >> Hmm, this is not entirely correct, e.g. Suse 9.2 puts >> the site-packages directory and all the other .py files >> into /usr/lib64 as well - not only the platforma dependent >> files. >> >> Not sure what other AMD64 distros do... but I have a feeling >> the /lib/ should *always* be replaced by unix_platlib. > > > It looks like RedHat/Fedora patch their package to only put the platform > specific files in /lib64 (that's how I made my patch). > > Perhaps this isn't a good idea to do then :-( I wonder whether it would > be possible for distribution to set these values somewhere. Couldn't > python have a sys function to return its Makefile? It's rather easy to find the right Makefile: just look for os.py (the landmark used in Python to initialize sys.path on startup), join it's path with "config" and you're there. More details can be found in Modules/getpath.c of the Python source distribution. You can then have distutils parse that file to extract the other details. Note that this doesn't work if you're importing from a ZIP file. > (anyway, I've managed to get my setup.py to work with the built-in > distutils...) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 19 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
