I'm trying to programmatically install something built using distutils. I found distutils.core.run_setup and can use it via
>>> dist = run_setup('setup.py', ['-q', 'install']) Is that the recommended way to do an install from inside Python (as opposed to doing it on the command line)? If so, how can I find where the thing(s) I installed now resides? I saw dist.packages but that just has top-level package names. I could __import__ these (and then use module.__file__), but that's not a good solution as it may run code I don't want run. On my machine, I can see the packages have been installed under the system's python2.5/site-packages directory. But how can I determine that programmatically? I don't see anything useful on the distutils.dist.Distribution instance I'm getting back from run_setup. Thanks! Terry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list