On 8/27/2011 2:07 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
On Aug 27, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Josh English wrote:
Philip,
Yes, the proper path should be c:\dev\XmlDB, which has the
setup.py, xmldb subfolder, the docs subfolder, and example
subfolder, and the other text files proscribed by the package
development folder.
I could only get it to work, though, by renaming the xmldb folder
in the site-packages directory, and deleting the egg file created
in the site-packages directory.
Why the egg file, which doesn't list any paths, would interfere I
do not know.
But with those changes, the xmldb.pth file is being read.
So I think the preferred search order is:
1. a folder in the site-packages directory 2. an Egg file (still
unsure why) 3. A .pth file
That might be implementation-dependent or it might even come down to
something as simple as the in which order the operating system
returns files/directories when asked for a listing.
Doc says first match, and I presume that includes first match within a
directory.
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