Re: modules and search path

2005-01-25 Thread Cory Dodt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Depends on what you mean. There's directories, and then there's packages, which are also directories. If you have: /usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/ then you should not add anything to Python's search path. (I don't know if you're familiar with Pytho

Re: Python modules for every supported version

2004-06-15 Thread Cory Dodt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is an implicit assumption here that python modules will actually work for all versions of Python. This is clearly not the case; some will use features only available in (some newer version X.y). Furthermore, at least a few (distutils and difflib

linda ... Re: Correct location of .py and .pyc files

2003-11-12 Thread Cory Dodt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I note that applications written in python, such as my aap package, go into /usr/lib/ per the policy (section 3.1.1), but linda does not support this. _all packages (most things written in Python) belong in /usr/share according to linda, but /usr/lib a