Change packages -> site-packages

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Guido van Rossum 1997-09-08 02:14:09 +00:00
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@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ works).
This will append site-specific paths to to the module search path. It
starts with sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix (if different) and appends
lib/python<version>/packages. The resulting directory, if it exists,
is added to sys.path, and also inspected for path configuration files.
lib/python<version>/site-packages as well as lib/site-python. The
resulting directories, if they exist, are appended to sys.path, and
also inspected for path configuration files.
A path configuration file is a file whose name has the form
<package>.pth; its contents are additional directories (one per line)
@ -23,9 +24,10 @@ sys.path more than once. Blank lines and lines beginning with
\code{#} are skipped.
For example, suppose sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to
/usr/local and there is a directory /usr/local/python1.5/packages with
three subdirectories, foo, bar and spam, and two path configuration
files, foo.pth and bar.pth. Assume foo.pth contains the following:
/usr/local and there is a directory /usr/local/python1.5/site-packages
with three subdirectories, foo, bar and spam, and two path
configuration files, foo.pth and bar.pth. Assume foo.pth contains the
following:
# foo package configuration
foo
@ -39,8 +41,8 @@ and bar.pth contains:
Then the following directories are added to sys.path, in this order:
/usr/local/lib/python1.5/packages/bar
/usr/local/lib/python1.5/packages/foo
/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/bar
/usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/foo
Note that bletch is omitted because it doesn't exist; bar precedes foo
because bar.pth comes alphabetically before foo.pth; and spam is
@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ for prefix in prefixes:
sitedirs = [os.path.join(prefix,
"lib",
"python" + sys.version[:3],
"packages"),
"site-packages"),
os.path.join(prefix, "lib", "site-python")]
else:
sitedirs = [prefix]