I think this is currently the best approach because PYTHONPATH gets lost in sudo commands in Leopard.
On 11/1/07, Jack Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1-Nov-2007, at 20:45 , Brian Granger wrote: > > Running python setup.py install on Leopard causes packages to be > > installed in the usual: > > > > /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages > > > > But, Apple put this directory _after_ > > > > /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Extras/lib/ > > python > > > > in sys.path. This, even if a user installs a newer version of one of > > these packages, the builtin python will always use Apple's older > > version. > > > Bah. The order is very strange: > - First most of the Python-supplied and Apple-supplied directories, > - Then /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages > - Then PyObjC, which is also Apple-supplied > - Then $HOME/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages, if it exists. > > By all means, report a bug. > > There is a workaround that packages can use to fix this, by the way, > through using Python code inside a .pth file. I used that in the > distant past to allow packman to fix bugs in system packages. > > I put the following line (without indentation) into ~/Library/Python/ > 2.5/site-packages/HackPath.pth > import sys ; sys.path.insert(0, '/Users/jack/MyPythonPrependedPath') > And, indeed, '/Users/jack/MyPythonPrependedPath' ends up as the first > entry in sys.path. > -- > Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack > If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma > Goldman > > > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
