On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Lele Gaifax <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I do understand that the documentation says “use virtualenv†to fix the > issue,
Or a clean Python build. > but I'm curious about the position of the “dist-packages†in the > list: > > 1) why does it ends in the middle? The paths are listed in the order that the corresponding distributions are found when satisfying requirements. So paths corresponding to the requirements you list will tend to appear earlier than the paths corresponding to their requirements, and so on. In some system installs, many system-installed distributions end up in the same path. > 2) is (the position) controllable/explicitly determinable in some way? Not directly. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
