On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:38:07PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > 2009/5/14 Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com>: > > I'd like to make a difference between what is "importable" and what is > > "installed" in Python. > > > > what's "installed" for me is what is in a site-packages directory that > > contains egg-info directories. > > I'm not sure how well-defined that is. Can you precisely define what a > "site-packages directory" is? Specifically, what about the Windows > registry items under HKLM\Software\Python\PythonCore\x.y\PythonPath? > There may be other "special" locations, I can't recall for certain.
I've treated those as an equivalent of the PYTHONPATH environment variable (but one that doesn't require rebooting if you add to it during a system wide installation). So they are not site-packages directories. Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig