Kakada wrote: > Hi list, > > I was just wondering why the below function return different location on > different machine? > > import distutils.sysconfig > distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() > On my computer: > '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages' > On my friend's computer: > '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages' > > What is the difference between these two? Note: I have both location on my > filestem. >
Most of the packages will install itself, by default, into /usr/local/lib/python$VER/site-packages/(third-party). But most distibutions will put their software into /usr/lib/python$VER/site-packages/. May be your friend might have changed $PYTHONHOME like env's so that it is pointing to /usr/local or while installing the python he might have set --prefix to the /usr/local/.... -VishnuMohan, Montalvo Systems. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
