On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:30 PM, P.J. Eby <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 12:00 AM 6/7/2011 -0700, James wrote: > >> As an example I'm looking at setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg, can someone tell >> me why setuptools/command/east_install.py in get_site_dirs() does its own >> computation of where site-packages is? As of 2.7 there are already 4 >> separate places in the python where this path is computed. Maybe I'm missing >> something but I don't see why an egg would have an opinion on this matter. >> > > It doesn't do that in order to know where to install things; it does it to > know what places are *safe* to install things that need .pth support. > > I'm seeing it make up the path and then fail in a copytree since the computed dest directory in my case doesn't exist So I'm not exactly sure what you mean when you say it doesn't. > (And unfortunately, there is no way to obtain this list from the site > module directly.) > I guess that is the nub, oh well. cheers, - James
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