[Pythonmac-SIG] which directory for site-packages

Sun Nov 16 15:48:13 CET 2008

Thanks, David,
I read both your notes, but I am still stumped.
I have edited the path, but when I reboot, the deleted path comes 
back, or, in other words, is reinserted by some other startup 
process. I read something about startup processes modifying the path, 
but I haven't determine which one is the cause and how to change it. 
So I am still searching.
Secondly, when I installed MacPython, I followed the instructions at http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/Leopard 
. Does not step 4 create a symbolic link between /Library/Frameworks 
back to /System/.... ? I followed those steps, and my 
Python.framework subdirectory in my /Library/ directory is an alias to 
the /System/ directory. So, I figured they are one in the same as 
per the instructions.
So I am still stuck
.
On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:15 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote:
> 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