Michael Kuhn added the comment: Thanks a lot Ned: you're right, the unexpected path was indeed set in ~/.pydistutils.cfg. So I agree with what has been written in the other issues, that the installation should detect the clash between the command line configuration and the configuration file to alert the unsuspecting user.
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