Nick Coghlan schrieb: > - for experienced users (Barry, skip, etc) that want ~/.local to be more > easily accessible, creating a visible ~/local symlink is an utterly > trivial exercise.
Our you can set the environment variable PYTHONUSERBASE to $HOME. PYTHONUSERBASE is the root directory for user specific data: def addusersitepackages(known_paths): """Add a per user site-package to sys.path Each user has its own python directory with site-packages in the home directory. USER_BASE is the root directory for all Python versions USER_SITE is the user specific site-packages directory USER_SITE/.. can be used for data. """ global USER_BASE, USER_SITE env_base = os.environ.get("PYTHONUSERBASE", None) def joinuser(*args): return os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(*args)) #if sys.platform in ('os2emx', 'riscos'): # # Don't know what to put here # USER_BASE = '' # USER_SITE = '' if os.name == "nt": base = os.environ.get("APPDATA") or "~" USER_BASE = env_base if env_base else joinuser(base, "Python") USER_SITE = os.path.join(USER_BASE, "Python" + sys.version[0] + sys.version[2], "site-packages") else: USER_BASE = env_base if env_base else joinuser("~", ".local") USER_SITE = os.path.join(USER_BASE, "lib", "python" + sys.version[:3], "site-packages") if os.path.isdir(USER_SITE): addsitedir(USER_SITE, known_paths) return known_paths Christian _______________________________________________ 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