On 22 Mar 2005 09:29:39 -0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm unclear on how .pth files work. Some posts imply they can be
>arbitrarily named, as long as they include the .pth extension, and can
>exist anywhere in the current sys.path. Other documentation seems to
>imply that they must be named <package>.pth, although I'm not sure what
>"package" it would be named after.
>
>I used strace to see if I could see which files it was looking for, but
>the output didn't show a single attempted stat() or open() of any .pth
>files.
>
>I may be barking up the wrong tree with the .pth files, anyway. Is
>there a general "best practice" for appending additional directories to
>search for modules? Specifically, I frequently write utilities that
>depend on a shared module or two that I don't particularly want to
>stick in the "site-packages" directory. The layout I generally prefer
>is a "lib" dir in the same directory as the assorted scripts. Clearly,
>I could just do a 'sys.path.append["./lib"]', but that seems kludgy.
>
>Any clarifications or recommendations?
>
>Thanks!
>
I haven't looked at all the ("about 23") hits, but have you tried googling for
pth site:python.org/doc
? The first hit looks promising.
(BTW, for your next python question, try some relevant words in place of "pth"
before posting ;-)
Regards,
Bengt Richter
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