(apologies for starting a new thread - Google can't retrieve the other message for some reason)
Yes, /usr/lib/python/site-packages is in sys.path. This series of commands should explain what I mean: I've put the Python ID3 module in a sub-directory of site-packages as an illustration. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ ID3.py ID3.pyc ID3.pyo README apt_inst.so apt_pkg.so apt_proxy bsddb3 debconf.py debconf.pyc debconf.pyo id3 pj twisted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/apt_proxy/ __init__.py __init__.pyo apt_proxy.pyc apt_proxy_conf.py apt_proxy_conf.pyo apt_proxytap.pyc memleak.py memleak.pyo misc.pyc packages.py packages.pyo __init__.pyc apt_proxy.py apt_proxy.pyo apt_proxy_conf.pyc apt_proxytap.py apt_proxytap.pyo memleak.pyc misc.py misc.pyo packages.pyc twisted_compat [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/id3 ID3.py ID3.pyc ID3.pyo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 00:38:15) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3', '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages'] >>> import apt_proxy.memleak >>> import id3.ID3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? ImportError: No module named id3.ID3 >>> Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list