Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages

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Philip,

Yes, the proper path should be c:\dev\XmlDB, which has the setup.py, xmldb subfolder, the docs subfolder, and example subfolder, and the other text files proscribed by the package development folder.

I could only get it to work, though, by renaming the xmldb folder in the site-packages directory, and deleting the egg file created in the site-packages directory. 

Why the egg file, which doesn't list any paths, would interfere I do not know.

But with those changes, the xmldb.pth file is being read.

So I think the preferred search order is:

1. a folder in the site-packages directory
2. an Egg file (still unsure why)
3. A .pth file

It's a strange juju that I haven't figured out yet. 

Thanks for the hint.

Josh

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Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 09:56 -0700
  Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-08-27 13:18 -0400
    Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 10:57 -0700
      Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-08-27 19:45 +0000
        Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:39 -0700
          Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-08-28 05:20 +0000
    Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 10:57 -0700
      Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-08-27 14:07 -0400
      Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-08-27 16:14 -0400
      Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-08-27 16:28 -0400
        Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:49 -0700
        Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:49 -0700
          Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-08-27 23:01 -0400
      Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-27 13:53 -0700
        Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:41 -0700
        Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Josh English <Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> - 2011-08-27 15:41 -0700
          Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Stephen Hansen <me+list/python@ixokai.io> - 2011-08-27 16:44 -0700
  Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-08-27 19:29 +0200
  Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-27 13:53 -0700

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