On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <caau18hc7katbonp7a+-a1pye8byysgfac4fhhksd8peeqjl...@mail.gmail.com>, > Nicholas Cole <nicholas.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In all previous versions of python, I've been able to install packages >> into the path: >> >> ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages >> >> but in the rc builds of python 3.3 this is no longer part of sys.path. >> >> Before I go hacking the install, is there a reason that this path was >> removed? Is there a recommended way to get it back, or is this a >> gentle way of pushing us all to use virtualenv rather than installing >> user-specific packages? > > It should be working if you are using an OS X framework build. What is > the value of sys.path?
I'm using the compiled version supplied by python.org. Python 3.3.0rc1 (v3.3.0rc1:8bb5c7bc46ba, Aug 25 2012, 10:09:29) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python33.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/plat-darwin', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/lib-dynload', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/lib/python3.3/site-packages'] >>> This contrasts with (for python3.1) Python 3.1.1 (r311:74543, Aug 24 2009, 18:44:04) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python31.zip', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/plat-darwin', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/lib-dynload', '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.1/lib/python3.1/site-packages', '/Users/nicholas/Library/Python/3.1/site-packages'] Best wishes, Nicholas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
