2010/4/2 P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com>: [...] > > * Paths under the base installation location are relative to the base > * Paths not under the base installation location, but under the installation > prefix, are also stored relative to the base, IF the base location is a > subpath of the installation prefix > * All other paths are absolute. > > Where "base location" is the effective --install-lib directory, and prefix > is the effective --prefix. (Which default of course to site-package and > sys.prefix respectively, but the spec shouldn't be in terms of those > defaults.)
Just to make sure we agree on this: we use relative path if the file is in site-packages, or somewhere under sys.prefix. For the latter this is only if site-packages is under sys.prefix. Examples under debian: docutils/__init__.py -> located in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ ../../../bin/rst2html.py -> located in /usr/local/bin /etc/whatever -> located in /etc So, everything under /usr/local (sys.prefix) is relative to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages. Other paths are absolute. In case the site-packages directory was not under sys.prefix, we would use an absolute path for files under sys.prefix but not in site-packages. (like rst2html.py) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com