Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Hello, > > Since the addition of PEP 370, (per-user site packages), site.py and > distutils/command/install.py are *both* providing the various > installation directories for Python, > depending on the system and the Python version. > > We have also started to discuss lately in various Mailing Lists the > addition of new schemes for IronPython and Jython, meaning that we > might add some more in both places. > > I would like to suggest a simplification by adding a dedicated module > to manage these installation schemes in one single place in the > stdlib. > > This new independant module would be used by site.py and distutils and > would also make it easier for third party code to work with these > schemes. > Of course this new module would be rather simple and not add any new > import statement to avoid any overhead when Python starts and loads > site.py
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