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What is the best way to get the target install dir from distutils when

python setup.py install

is run.

Eg, on a standard python install to /usr/local I want

/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages

and on a standard win32 python installation I want
c:\\Python23\\L ib\\site-packages

I also want to handle the case when an alternate prefix is installed.

To to ask the question another way. I want to add SomeFile.pth to the
install dir. For various reasons, extra_path is not a good choice for
me. I just want to copy a file SomeFile.pth to the site-packages dir.
My workaround is to treat SomeFile.pth as a data_file, and add it to
the site-packages dir (stored in sitep) with

data_files = [ (sitep, 'SomeFile.pth') ]
setup(name="som emod",
..snip...
ext_modules = ext_modules,
data_files=data _files,
)

Thanks,
John Hunter

Jul 18 '05 #1
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