"""Append module search paths for third-party packages to sys.path. **************************************************************** * This module is automatically imported during initialization. * **************************************************************** In earlier versions of Python (up to 1.5a3), scripts or modules that needed to use site-specific modules would place ``import site'' somewhere near the top of their code. Because of the automatic import, this is no longer necessary (but code that does it still 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/packages. The resulting directory, if it exists, is added to sys.path, and also inspected for path configuration files. A path configuration file is a file whose name has the form .pth; its contents are additional directories (one per line) to be added to sys.path. Non-existing directories (or non-directories) are never added to sys.path; no directory is added to 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: # foo package configuration foo bar bletch and bar.pth contains: # bar package configuration bar 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 Note that bletch is omitted because it doesn't exist; bar precedes foo because bar.pth comes alphabetically before foo.pth; and spam is omitted because it is not mentioned in either path configuration file. After these path manipulations, an attempt is made to import a module named sitecustomize, which can perform arbitrary additional site-specific customizations. If this import fails with an ImportError exception, it is silently ignored. Note that for some non-Unix systems, sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are empty, and then the path manipulations are skipped; however the import of sitecustomize is still attempted. """ import sys, os def addsitedir(sitedir): if sitedir not in sys.path: sys.path.append(sitedir) # Add path component try: names = os.listdir(sitedir) except os.error: return names = map(os.path.normcase, names) names.sort() for name in names: if name[-4:] == ".pth": addpackage(sitedir, name) def addpackage(sitedir, name): fullname = os.path.join(sitedir, name) try: f = open(fullname) except IOError: return while 1: dir = f.readline() if not dir: break if dir[0] == '#': continue if dir[-1] == '\n': dir = dir[:-1] dir = os.path.join(sitedir, dir) if dir not in sys.path and os.path.exists(dir): sys.path.append(dir) prefixes = [sys.prefix] if sys.exec_prefix != sys.prefix: prefixes.append(sys.exec_prefix) for prefix in prefixes: if prefix: if os.sep == '/': sitedirs = [os.path.join(prefix, "lib", "python" + sys.version[:3], "packages"), os.path.join(prefix, "lib", "site-python")] else: sitedirs = [prefix] for sitedir in sitedirs: if os.path.isdir(sitedir): addsitedir(sitedir) try: import sitecustomize # Run arbitrary site specific code except ImportError: pass # No site customization module def _test(): print "sys.path = [" for dir in sys.path: print " %s," % `dir` print "]" if __name__ == '__main__': _test()