[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

Ned Deily added the comment: Update: this change has been reverted in Python 2.7.13. See Issue #28440 for details. -- nosy: +ned.deily stage: -> resolved ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a8a342b3fbc7 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #28440: No longer add /Library/Python/site-packages, the Apple-supplied https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a8a342b3fbc7 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python trac

[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Committed a fix for this as r70778 (trunk), r70782 (3.1) -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I'm in favour of adding /Library/Python/x.y/ to sys.path for Python 2.7 and 3.1 and will work on that during the Pycon sprints. /Library/Python will be added after the site-packages directory inside the framework instead of replacing the latter directory. Th

[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

Karsten Petersen added the comment: Sorry, I should have made this clear: I am NOT proposing to add this patch. I meant this more to show what related changes were done by Apple. Some of these clearly wouldn't even work like this if applied to a Python not installed in /System/Library/Framewo

[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: IIUC, you are not the author of the patch (in the sense that you wrote the new code), but rather created a diff between Apple's code and Python's. In this case, we cannot accept the patch - it needs to be contributed by the authors (i.e. Apple). Furthermore, I

[issue4865] system wide site-packages dir not used on Mac OS X

New submission from Karsten Petersen : [Guido asked me to file this as an issue.] On Mac OS X Apple has configured the system provided Python to also search this global site-packages directory: /Library/Python//site-packages/ This allows users to install their own system-wide packages there