-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 7, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 6:32 AM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:01 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> We could easily resolve that issue, if we add a per-user site- >>> packages >>> dir to sys.path in site.py (this is already done for Macs). >> >> +1. I've advocated that for years. > > I'm not sure what this buys given that you can do this using > PYTHONPATH anyway, but because of that I also can't be against it. +0 > from me. Patches for 2.6 gratefully accepted. I think it's PEP-worthy too, just so that the semantics get nailed down. Here's a strawman proto-quasi-pre-PEP. Python automatically adds ~/.python/site-packages to sys.path; this is added /before/ the system site-packages file. An open question is whether it needs to go at the front of the list. It should definitely be searched before the system site-packages. Python treats ~/.python/site-packages the same as the system site- packages, w.r.t. .pth files, etc. Open question: should we add yet another environment variable to control this? It's pretty typical for apps to expose such a thing so that the base directory (e.g. ~/.python) can be moved. I think that's all that's needed. It would make playing with easy_install/setuptools nicer to have this. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR4JSJ3EjvBPtnXfVAQIXfgP9HCi8PNwUbPTbeaf7JPHLTkguYwUAyLH2 vD31w76fnh3pChIZSY9CtP51qRmB22DChSQxaagLmnl9FXjdS1dmXOu7oT7lfj2z avTptyJ2MB8kFuGLK2In/mjbWxPUgAd19sbm4jtE5b3nauOBVyZh23TxFvH5uRdD bUaqRNib3vE= =P3p4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
