On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article > <caau18hc8tknucqcoiovypa1yc9qgvu-bquoe91r7g3ye8hg...@mail.gmail.com>, > Nicholas Cole <nicholas.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > The directory needs to exist otherwise the path is not included (see > site.py).
It certainly does exist. Distutils will happily put packages into it, but import won't find them. N. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
