-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 12, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote: > > I used to always set up my own Python[s] in /usr/local > and put that first in my PATH, but I have gotten lazy lately, and > sometimes it will bite me. ;)
On Debian and derivatives (e.g. Ubuntu) you might have even more fun. They put /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages on the sys.path *of the system python*! This means that you can break your system Python by installing a version of Python from source and then distutil'ing things into there. Astoundingly, this is promoted as a feature. I've reported bugs on this and had discussions with some of the Debian Python packaging folks. I'm hoping that we'll find a solution that doesn't collide with a from-source default Python build. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSAH1mnEjvBPtnXfVAQJAvAP/S1p03Jlq73fZB4H6Qt7cH/qXpInQ4G7i VDMdH0yxZ3Fih8LG/eFcvpu0YCI7iHWtct+h2GXA/gUVPlgWxwJDE2Ahixg9MNS3 faETU1DNqJb4oUbwjZD/FzwLCGRXp/17s4+Q2JX4YaOvShsVeS+F3Kr+3zwfDL0m hrMRfaJTYSE= =a8MZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
