It may very well make a difference if you're using python2.4 and you install packages in a python2.5 site-packages directory! I remember reading somewhere that that was one of the issues of doing a Leopard upgrade, versus wiping the drive and doing a full install. I did the latter, and I don't have python2.4 anymore, and all my packages go in a single convenience directory: /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages, though the python installation itself is still under /Library/ Frameworks.
Sorry I can't be more helpful with the specifics, but I do remember reading a lot of complaints on this issue so... be careful! Eric On Jun 23, 2008, at 10:10 PM, Jamie Pittock wrote: > > Thank you Gordon (and Joshua) that's really useful. > > I think I'll use the site-packages folder then. After doing what you > said I've noticed I seem to have multiple installs of Python on my > machine (OSX). > > /usr/lib/python2.5/ > /Library/Python/2.5/ > /opt/local/lib/python2.5/ > /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/ > (currently being used) > > This is probably due in part to upgrading to Leopard and it changing > the location, maybe? > > I presume again it doesn't matter which of these I use aslong as I'm > consistent? > > > On Jun 23, 2:23 pm, gordyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jamie the command you quoted "python setup.py install" -- on my >> system >> I have to run it as root or else do "sudo python setup.py install" -- >> will copy the files for that module to the appropriate location. >> >> If the module you are interested in is in pure Python, with no c- >> code, >> you can often just make it available anywhere on your PYTHONPATH. >> >> In any event, the most common place that extra stuff gets installed >> is >> in your "site-packages" folder. On my Ubuntu machine that is located >> in two places: >> >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages >> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages >> >> You can always find the location on your system by asking Python >> itself: >> >>>>> import sys >>>>> for p in sys.path: >> >> ... print p >> ... >> >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/lxml-2.1beta2-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg >> /usr/lib/python25.zip >> /usr/lib/python2.5 >> /usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2 >> /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk >> /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload >> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10 >> /var/lib/python-support/python2.5 >> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0 >> /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0 >> >> Here is an example of what I mentioned earlier about installing pure >> Python modules... I have both django and report lab checked out of >> the >> repository and just put symbolic links to them in the /usr/local/lib/ >> python2.5/site-packages folder: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ pwd >> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages$ ls -l >> total 12 >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 34 2007-12-28 10:29 django -> /home/gordy/ >> projects/python/django >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 548 2008-02-05 14:14 moin-1.6.1.egg-info >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 548 2008-02-05 13:38 moin-1.6.1-py2.5.egg- >> info >> drwxr-sr-x 25 root staff 4096 2008-02-05 13:38 MoinMoin >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 37 2008-01-15 10:41 reportlab -> /home/ >> gordy/projects/python/reportlab >> >> Works great. >> >> --gordon > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
