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Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages

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On 8/27/2011 2:07 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Josh English wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> That might be implementation-dependent or it might even come down to
> something as simple as the in which order the operating system
> returns files/directories when asked for a listing.

Doc says first match, and I presume that includes first match within a 
directory.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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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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