Site packages is where the platform dependant libraries of Mac python reside. they should be in /Library/Python/site-packages/ and thats where platform specific libraries are installed. Python home im not sure of, PYTHONPATH is where the python interpreter lives, it is specific to the particular version of python so each version [2.3, 2.4, 2.5] can possibly print a different response when you put the following commands in your python interpreter:
import sys print sys.path
you shall get a list of paths, these are the paths to all the directories (folders) that the python interpreter will look in for libraries. On 5/5/07, Chris Cioffi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all, I'm trying to get started with Python 2.5 on my Mac and for various reasons would like to use th Python from MacPorts. [http://www.macports.org/] I've installed Python 2.5 and when I start it up I get the following: """ Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 4 2007, 19:57:54) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> """ The only change I have from the default system is I have .pydistutils.cfg with the following: """ [install] install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages install_scripts = ~/Applications/bin install_data = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/share """ Does anyone have any idea on what I should set $PYTHONPATHHOME to? My ports install is the default location, /opt/local. Any help would be very much appreciated! Chris -- "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." -- P. J. O'Rourke _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
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