[issue8759] 2.7: wrong user site directory on Linux; totally missing on OSX

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: The --user directory for framework installs of python on OSX has changed from a subdirectory of ~/.local to a subdirectory ~/Library. As described in the NEWS file: - Issue #8084: PEP 370 now conforms to system conventions for framework builds on MacOS X.

[issue8759] 2.7: wrong user site directory on Linux; totally missing on OSX

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Are you sure you didn't deactivate use site ? (by turning site.ENABLE_USER_SITE off) Please check its value: >>> import site >>> site.ENABLE_USER_SITE True Pathes look fine on my Mac : Python 2.7b2+ (trunk:81228, May 16 2010, 14:42:34) [GCC 4.0.1 (Ap

[issue8759] 2.7: wrong user site directory on Linux; totally missing on OSX

Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- assignee: -> tarek nosy: +ronaldoussoren, tarek priority: normal -> high ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue8759] 2.7: wrong user site directory on Linux; totally missing on OSX

New submission from Sridhar Ratnakumar : sridh...@triple:~$ /opt/ActivePython-2.7/bin/python -c "import sys; print sys.path; import cmdln" ['', '/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python27.zip', '/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python2.7', '/opt/ActivePython-2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/opt/ActivePytho