On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:36:22PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Paul Hampson wrote: > > Someone, sometime wrote: (Sorry, lost the attribution at some point) > > > Some people have pointed out that other PHP programs go to /usr/share > > > as well. Just to complement: Perl modules also get installed to > > > /usr/share if they are not architecture-specific. Python seems not to > > > be that way, as its standard sys.path does not include /usr/share/*.
> > On the other hand, python drops .pyc and .pyo files into the same > > directory as the .py file at python install-time. I'd hazard a guess > > that it can't find the .pyc and .pyo files if they're in a different > > place than the .py file they come from. > The bytecode is platform-independent, isn't it? That means it also belongs > to /usr/share. OTOH, if .pyo is object code that is platform-dependent, > then that means all that python stuff needs to be moved to /usr/lib, if > python cannot be told to stop byte-compiling stuff under /usr/share. My PowerPC Debian/Testing machine: tbble:/usr/lib/python2.3$ md5sum filecmp.py* 87f6fca826c9ae5ce919b7b5c0374eaf filecmp.py 9f1c4ed5de3263b262f794bb39c737fb filecmp.pyc 9f1c4ed5de3263b262f794bb39c737fb filecmp.pyo tbble:/usr/lib/python2.3$ dpkg -l python2.3 ii python2.3 2.3.4-13 My i386 Debian/Testing machine: tbble:/usr/lib/python2.3$ md5sum filecmp.py* 87f6fca826c9ae5ce919b7b5c0374eaf filecmp.py fd27e21da14a763132a94e6074e2d186 filecmp.pyc fd27e21da14a763132a94e6074e2d186 filecmp.pyo tbble:/usr/lib/python2.3$ dpkg -l python2.3 ii python2.3 2.3.4-13 On the other hand, my i386 Debian/Unstable machines: tbble:/usr/lib/python2.3$ md5sum filecmp.py* 87f6fca826c9ae5ce919b7b5c0374eaf filecmp.py a1e61e03c0b25aab7ea5d8d9bea9a02f filecmp.pyc a1e61e03c0b25aab7ea5d8d9bea9a02f filecmp.pyo tbble:/usr/lib/python2.3$ dpkg -l python2.3 ii python2.3 2.3.4-19 So I reckon it _is_ platform dependant. In fact, given it's regeneratable data, maybe /var/lib/python2.3 would make sense? Maybe it'd be more useful if I actually learnt to program in Python. ^_^ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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