Hi! I posted (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/s3vLkVy2xJk) to comp.lang.python yesterday the following question:
------- Is there cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files (console scripts for instance) the same way one can use sys.executable to get path to the Python's interpreter in cross-platform way? Context: There's Python script which runs various tools like pip using subprocess and we would like to make sure we run tools that accompany Python's interpreter used to run this script. Please note that the script may be run from within virtualenv which had not been activated - ./venv/bin/python our_script.py ------- In replay Oscar Benjamin showed roundabout way to get this info In [1]: from distutils.command.install import install In [2]: from distutils.dist import Distribution In [3]: c = install(Distribution()) In [4]: c.finalize_ c.finalize_options c.finalize_other c.finalize_unix In [4]: c.finalize_options() In [5]: c.insta c.install_base c.install_headers c.install_lib c.install_path_file c.install_platlib c.install_scripts c.install_usersite c.install_data c.install_layout c.install_libbase c.install_platbase c.install_purelib c.install_userbase In [5]: c.install_scripts Out[5]: '/usr/local/bin' Is it really that there's no API like sys.executable to get this info and if so are there any plans to provide such API? Best regards, Piotr Dobrogost _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
