In article <5a0e2490-a743-4729-a752-d94524ea9...@barrys-emacs.org>,
Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> On my Mac OS X 10.7.3 System I have lots of python kits installed for
> developing extensions.
>
> I'll just noticed that Python.org 2.7.2 uses the sames site-packages folder
> with Apple's
> 2.7.1.
>
> Since extensions compiled against Apple's 2.7.1 segv when used by
> python.org's 2.7.2
> this is at least unfortunate.
>
> Here is the what is in sys.path for both versions. Notice
> /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
> is in both.
That directory is in the default sys.path for both the Apple-supplied
Python 2.7 in Lion and for the python.org Python 2.7's but that doesn't
mean both versions use the same site-packages directory:
$ /usr/bin/python2.7 -c "import distutils.sysconfig; \
print(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib())"
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
$ /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c "import distutils.sysconfig; \
print(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib())"
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-pack
ages
That means that, by default, packages installed by Distutils-based
installs (setup.py, easy_install, pip, et al) will be installed to the
corresponding directory for each version.
The python.org OS X Pythons (and built-from-source framework builds) add
the Apple-specific directory to the search path in order to allow
sharing of installed third-party packages between the two. The feature
was added in 2.7 and 3.1+ and tracked in Issue4865
(http://bugs.python.org/issue4865). Please open a new issue on the
tracker if you have examples of how this is causing problems. Thanks.
--
Ned Deily,
n...@acm.org
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