Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-24 Thread Yves Serrano
forgot to add this to my last post... I created an 'env' dir in my home folder, there I have the enviroments dirs 'py23-zope2.8' and 'py25-dj-nfa' for example. This is what I need to do, to active the environment in the shell and what it looks after: host:~ username$ source

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-24 Thread Yves Serrano
On Jun 23, 3:08 pm, Jamie Pittock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all - this may well be a very basic question but I'm gonna ask it > anyway as, everyone needs to learn, and I can't find the answer > anywhere else.  It's probably more related to Python than Django > but... > > If you're

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread Norman Harman
Jamie Pittock wrote: > Thank you Gordon (and Joshua) that's really useful. > > I think I'll use the site-packages folder then. After doing what you > said I've noticed I seem to have multiple installs of Python on my > machine (OSX). > > /usr/lib/python2.5/ > /Library/Python/2.5/ >

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread Jamie Pittock
No, that does help. This is all making sense now. Looking around in the different site-packages folders I can start seeing where things have gone wrong. I was running 'sudo python setup.py install' but it didn't appear to be doing anything. It turns out they were just being installed in a

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
It may very well make a difference if you're using python2.4 and you install packages in a python2.5 site-packages directory! I remember reading somewhere that that was one of the issues of doing a Leopard upgrade, versus wiping the drive and doing a full install. I did the latter, and I

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread Jamie Pittock
Thank you Gordon (and Joshua) that's really useful. I think I'll use the site-packages folder then. After doing what you said I've noticed I seem to have multiple installs of Python on my machine (OSX). /usr/lib/python2.5/ /Library/Python/2.5/ /opt/local/lib/python2.5/

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread gordyt
Jamie the command you quoted "python setup.py install" -- on my system I have to run it as root or else do "sudo python setup.py install" -- will copy the files for that module to the appropriate location. If the module you are interested in is in pure Python, with no c-code, you can often just

Re: Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread joshuajonah
Depends on your setup, I store my extras (MySQLdb, Django, mod_python/ wsgi installers, Imaging, etc.) in /opt/. It's usually empty on most machines. Some like to use a folder within their user folder, especially for multi user computers. It's really up to you. On Jun 23, 9:08 am, Jamie Pittock

Where to install additional libraries?

2008-06-23 Thread Jamie Pittock
Hi all - this may well be a very basic question but I'm gonna ask it anyway as, everyone needs to learn, and I can't find the answer anywhere else. It's probably more related to Python than Django but... If you're installing additional Python libraries such as Imaging or Markdown, where are