In article <1s1fp8-6la....@pluto.solar-empire.de>, Marc Christiansen <use...@solar-empire.de> wrote:
> > So, is there any way to get my local copy of mongoengine loaded instead > > of the system egg? I could probably import sys, and do an egg-ectomy on > > sys.path before importing mongoengine, but that's too gross to > > contemplate. > > The only way I found is to edit the easy_install.pth file and comment > the two lines starting with "import sys". You'll have to do that every > time you install/upgrade an egg via easy_install (and maybe setuptools). > In your case the right file should be > /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/easy_install.pth > > BTW: You could try pip (http://www.pip-installer.org/) instead of > easy_install, it doesn't mess with sys.path. But, you're talking about installers. I'm talking about if I've already got something installed, how do I force one particular python process to pull in a local copy of a module in preference to the installed one? In some cases, I own the machine and can make changes to /usr/local/lib if I want to. But what about on a shared machine? I don't want to (or perhaps can't) play with what's in /usr/local/lib just to make my stuff load first. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
