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On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Tarek Ziadé <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ziade.tarek@gmail.com">ziade.tarek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">so for the PEP :</div>
<br>
- sys.prefix -> the installation prefix provided by --prefix at<br>
installation time<br>
- site-packages -> the installation libdir, provided by --install-lib<br>
at installation time</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>How do you actually calculate site-packages? Â Would you store the directory name somewhere? Â Would you import the module and look at os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(module.__file__))? Â Or just scan to see where the module would be?</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you store the directory name somewhere then you have another absolute path. Â This is why, for simplicity, I thought it should be relative to the directory where the record file is (lots of extraneous ../, but the most obvious meaning of a relative filename).</div>
<br>-- <br>Ian Bicking  |  <a href="http://blog.ianbicking.org">http://blog.ianbicking.org</a><br>
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