On 2008-01-07 17:24, Barry Warsaw wrote: > 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'd suggest to make the "~/.python" part configurable by an env var, e.g. PYTHONRESOURCES. Perhaps we could use that directory for other Python-related resources as well, e.g. an optional sys.path lookup cache (pickled dictionary of known package/module file locations to reduces Python startup time). > I think that's all that's needed. It would make playing with > easy_install/setuptools nicer to have this. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 07 2008) >>> 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 mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX 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 _______________________________________________ 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
