On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:42, Efrat Regev wrote: > Hello, > > On FC4, I've generated an .so file from C++ which I want to use from > python. It works when I copy it into /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages. > (I.e., say I have hello.so in that directory, then from the python > prompt I can 'import hello', and the code works fine). The problem is > that the said directory requires su - so I'd rather python load my .so > from a different user-privilege directory (when I type 'import hello'). > Is there some way to tell python to use a different directory?
Yes. See http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html#SECTION008110000000000000000 for information on Python's module search path. Hope this helps, Carsten. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list