On 2020-03-11, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2020, 18:54:43 CET schrieb Grant Edwards: >> [...] >> Q: Under what conditions will having a second installation of a Python >> library under .local cause problems? > > IIUC you shouldn't have any problems, simply because ~/.local/ is not part of > the system python's module search path: > > % python3 > Python 3.6.10 (default, Feb 26 2020, 01:09:02) > [GCC 9.2.0] on linux > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import sys >>>> sys.path > ['', '/usr/lib64/python36.zip', '/usr/lib64/python3.6', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/ > lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages']
Except it is for me (and I don't know how it gets there): $ which python /usr/bin/python $ file /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to python-exec2c $ file /usr/bin/python-exec2c /usr/bin/python-exec2c: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, stripped $ set | grep -i py $ python Python 3.6.10 (default, Feb 26 2020, 16:43:12) [GCC 9.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/usr/lib64/python36.zip', '/usr/lib64/python3.6', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/home/grante/.local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pygdbmi-0.8.4.0-py3.6.egg', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pcpp-1.1.1-py3.6.egg', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pytz-2019.2-py3.6.egg', '/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/python_dateutil-2.8.0-py3.6.egg'] >>> The entry for /home/grante/.local/lib64/python3.6/site-packages (where pip --user installs things) is in my path. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Remember, in 2039, at MOUSSE & PASTA will gmail.com be available ONLY by prescription!!