Peter Bittner <peter.bitt...@gmx.net> added the comment:
Python learners deserve to know about "site-packages" and (optionally) "dist-packages". This is a "random note", it's an explanation that is missing in the tutorial. - Site-packages "is the target directory of manually built Python packages", does someone explain.[4] - It is the "expected convention for locally installed packages", explains Greg Ward in "Installing Python Modules".[5] - Their location is only a subset of `sys.path`, as visible from the Python code in the `site` module.[6] The tutorial currently mentions its special role only briefly [7], saying: > * The installation-dependent default. We should explain that part. I'll give it a shot replacing my earlier proposal. [4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31384639/what-is-pythons-site-packages-directory [5] https://docs.python.org/3.8/install/#modifying-python-s-search-path [6] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/site.py#L319-L344 [7] https://docs.python.org/3.8/tutorial/modules.html?highlight=installation-dependent%20default#the-module-search-path ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38623> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
