On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:48:04 -0700, Brock Pytlik <bpyt...@sun.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to find a way to get the value sys.path would have on a > particular system if python was started with an empty python path. I do > want it to include the site specific additional paths. I know I can hack > this information myself,
Copy the code out from site.py... > but I'd rather be able to get this on demand so > that if things change in the future, I don't have grovel around looking > for which directory string to change. for index in range(len(sys.path)): del sys.path[0] site.addsitedir(self.p.python_sitepackages_path) > If nothing else, I think the following would satisfy my needs: > 1) a variable containing the directories to use as a prefix (I think > sys.exec_prefix and sys.prefix are what I want here) > 2) a variable containing the list of suffixes that are applies to the > prefixes, like lib/python<version>/site-packages > 3) a way of handing the *.pth files What way do you want to handle them? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list