I was wondering how to do this too. I'm trying to write a distutils
setup.py script that has some data I'd like to include. From the
distutils docs I get
data_files specifies a sequence of (directory, files) pairs in the
following way:
setup(...
data_files=[('bitmaps', ['bm/b1.gif', 'bm/b2.gif']),
('config', ['cfg/data.cfg']),
('/etc/init.d', ['init-script'])]
)
I can use sys.prefix to find the top level where python is installed,
but this doesn't tell me specifically where site-packages is. On my
Linux box it is in
{sys.prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages
but on Windows, it's in
{sys.prefix}/Lib/site-packages.
Do I need to use sys.platform (along with sys.version) to check what
type of machine I'm on, or is there some better method to get the
location of site-packages?
Thanks.
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