[Pythonmac-SIG] which directory for site-packages

Sat Nov 15 23:15:54 CET 2008

On 15-Nov-08, at 1:15 PM, Hunt Culver wrote:
> Then from within python I printed all the the sys.paths and 
> sys.prefix. I tried to create a site-packages sub directory in
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ 
> python2.5 , but python doesn't seem to find it automatically.

This suggests you're actually not using the MacPython you installed. 
The Python.org build installs everything into /Library. /System/ 
Library contains the Python that ships with OS X.
To summarize: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework and /Library/ 
Frameworks/Python.framework are two different Python installations. 
You seem to be running the latter while attempting to run the former.
David