On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Josh English <joshua.r.engl...@gmail.com> wrote: > According to the docs, I should be able to put a file in the site-packages > directory called xmldb.pth pointing anywhere else on my drive to include the > package. I'd like to use this to direct Python to include the version in the > dev folder and not the site-packages folder.
The name of the .pth file is not important. Python uses it to add locations to sys.path; it doesn't care what packages might be contained at those locations. > So my C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\xmldb.pth file has one line: > > c:\dev\XmlDB\xmldb The final xmldb is the actual package, yes? The directory in the .pth file should be one inside which Python can find packages, not a package itself. So the file should have just "c:\dev\XmlDB". Then when you do "import xmldb", Python will look inside the "c:\dev\XmlDB", find the xmldb package, and import it. > > (I've tried the slashes the other way, too, but it doesn't seem to work). > > Is the only solution to delete the installed library and add the dev folder > to my site.py file? The preferred solution here is to use virtualenv to set up your development environment without having to modify the installed version in the system site-packages at all. HTH, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
