At 11:24 AM 1/7/2008 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: >-----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.
What about including the Python version in the directory name? C Extensions may not work correctly across versions, and bytecode will get recompiled a lot if you're using multiple versions. Also, if this is a 2.6/3.0 change, it's likely that the *source* won't be compatible across versions either. :) >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. Assuming that this is a true "site" directory (i.e., .pth files are recognized), then yes. _______________________________________________ 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
