On 2013-03-20, at 9:54 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote:
>> An application written in python wants to import a python library not >> presently included among MacPorts' ports. > > I would just add it to MacPorts then. I have tried before to write a portfile (for a different package) and even with hints, was unable to get it to work. I may try again but need a solution in the meantime. I could ask someone via trak to do it, but was reluctant to do so until I could know that more people than just me might desire something that might be called py-hl7. >> Is there some more "standard" place under Mac OS where I can relocate the >> hl7 library so that my MacPorts python can find it? > > Well, `pip install --user` puts things into the user-site. I am maybe missing the relevance of pip to MacPorts > Python's documentation (PEP 370 - Per user site-packages directory) says [1]: > On Mac OS X Python uses ~/.local directory as well. Framework builds of > Python include ~/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages as an additional search > path. > [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ My ~/Library/ contains no Python My ~/.local contains only the directory /share and after I deposited into ~/.local/ the hl7 directory and the files contained therein, the required import did not work, so I seem no further ahead. -- Jim _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
