i am not sure where i found site.here documented as used prior to 2.4. the issue is that i do not need sys.path, as in the list of all paths that python searches. sys.prefix is close to what i need:
>>> sys.prefix '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3' but the old site.here gave sys.prefix, plus the additional directories to get into the actual python library: >>> site.here '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3' can we assume that, on all platforms, the old site.here is the same as: >>> os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib', 'python%s' % sys.version[:3]) '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3' or is it better to use, as you suggest, >>> import os >>> os.path.dirname(os.__file__) '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3' this is useful for a few reasons. the first was i needed a cross platform way to find the complete path to the idle directory; the second was the complete path to the 'site-packages' directory. thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
