Tarek Ziadé wrote: > 2009/8/4 M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]>: >> Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 4:45 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> >>>> It would be nice to have a user config *directory* for all Python >>>> config things, e.g. ~/.python/. Then it'd be natural to drop >>>> the ".py" prefix. Without the prefix, people would have a hard time >>>> connecting a .distutils.cfg in their home dir with Python. >>> >>> Python already uses ~/.local for stuff. It should go in there. >> >> You have a point there... we could put the user local config >> files into ~/.local/lib/python2.6/ and then name it distutils.cfg >> just like for the system-wide install. > > So in that case I suppose I have to lookup at PYTHONUSERBASE as well, > as done on site.py. > > I also propose if that's the case, to add a function in site.py that > returns USER_SITE and USER_BASE, > so it can be used by site.addusersitepackages *and* by distutils here
+1 While you're at it, please also add a function that returns the global site-packages dir(s). -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 04 2009) >>> 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 our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
