On 10/21/18 12:52 AM, Malhar Lathkar wrote: > Hi all. > > I am trying to understand how Python's installation directory is organized. > I find lib as well as libs folder. what's the difference? I couldn't find > exact explanation of purpose of various other sub folders like include, > scripts, share etc. Can you help me understand this? Please share > documentation link if any. > > thanks. >
on a Windows installation, Lib is the python code for the standard library, while DLLs contains any backing binary objects for the standard library; meanwhile libs is what is necessary to to link with the python libraries themselves, as when developing a C-language extension. include is the header files used for compiling such extensions - so these two are not part of the Python runtime, but have this special purpose. (note sometimes when you "python -m pip install" it may try to compile some code, so this is not always just for you yourself to write extensions). The rest should be relatively straightforward. The layout can be quite different on other systems. A /usr/share directory on Linux is used here for shareable, non-binary pieces like documentation and license files. The python layout on Linux is normally packaged along the lines of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
