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Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs?

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Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:


> But, you're talking about installers.  I'm talking about if I've already 
> got something installed, how do I force one particular python process to 
> pull in a local copy of a module in preference to the installed one?
>
> In some cases, I own the machine and can make changes to /usr/local/lib 
> if I want to.  But what about on a shared machine?  I don't want to (or 
> perhaps can't) play with what's in /usr/local/lib just to make my stuff 
> load first.

Maybe I'm missing something - but if I want to do this I just mess about
with sys.path at the top of my python script/program. Always seems to
work... is there a situation in which it doesn't?

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How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-11-16 20:57 -0500
  Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Marc Christiansen <usenet@solar-empire.de> - 2011-11-17 10:48 +0100
    Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-11-17 09:09 -0500
      Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-17 15:04 +0000
        Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-11-17 20:38 -0500
      Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2011-11-17 17:05 +0000
        Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-11-17 20:36 -0500
          Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 18:58 -0800
            Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-11-18 11:52 +0100
          Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2011-11-18 05:54 +0000
          Re: How to insert my own module in front of site eggs? "spartan.the" <spartan.the@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 12:44 -0800

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