I'm trying to use distutils to install a collection of modules in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages. My distribution (Fedora 15) doesn't include any /usr/local paths in sys.path, so the import fails when running the program. The distutils documentation suggests adding a $NAME.pth file to an existing site-packages directory in sys.path. Is there a preferred/accepted method of doing this?
I considered just adding some code to my setup.py to generate a braindump.pth file containing something like: PREFIX/lib/pythonMAJOR.MINOR/site-packages and then walking the existing sys.path and picking one of those site-packages directories to install braindump.pth to. I'm not sure how to determine which is the appropriate path. Maybe I'm going about this completely wrong as well - anyone care to help steer me in the right direction? The project is located here: http://braindump.dvhart.com in case anyone wants it for reference. Thanks, -- Darren Hart -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
