How to get path to Python standard library directory?

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In a Makefile (or sometimes inside python) I need the path to the 
root of the Python standard lib folder used by "env python".

e.g.  /usr/lib/python2.6/   or    C:\Python27\Lib\
what is the best/canonical way to get that?
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