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Michal Marek wrote:
> Pascal Bleser wrote:
>> What just makes me wonder... what's the point of installing Python
>> libraries under /usr/local when the default sys.path doesn't include
>> that directory ?
>>
>> $ python
>> Python 2.4.2 (#1, Apr  9 2006, 16:08:21)
>> [GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>> import sys
>>>>>> print sys.path
>> ['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.4',
>> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk',
>> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload',
>> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages',
>> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric',
>> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0']
>>
>> No /usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages in there...
> 
> It will appear in sys.path only only if the directory exists:
> 
> # mkdir -p /usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/
> $ python  -c 'import sys; print sys.path;'
> ['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.4',
> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-tk',
> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload',
> '/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages',
> '/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages']
>      ^^^^^^^

Oh, right, then it's fine :)

> To be honest, I don't know why it works this way (my python knowledge is
> quite limited), ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have problems with the
> current way it works:

That's ok. Thanks for clarifying :)

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