Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:verizon.net': 0.07; 'terry': 0.07; 'presume': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'read.': 0.10; 'egg': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'semanchuk': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'jan': 0.19; 'file,': 0.21; "doesn't": 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'work,': 0.23; 'unsure': 0.23; 'asked': 0.23; 'pm,': 0.24; 'aug': 0.24; 'changes,': 0.24; 'says': 0.25; 'preferred': 0.25; '27,': 0.29; 'subject: .': 0.29; 'example': 0.30; 'match': 0.30; 'folder.': 0.30; 'list': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'operating': 0.33; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.34; 'directory.': 0.34; 'doc': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.35; 'folder': 0.35; 'file': 0.36; 'created': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'something': 0.37; 'could': 0.38; 'think': 0.38; 'received:org': 0.38; 'should': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.39; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'why': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'might': 0.40; 'order': 0.62; 'match,': 0.73; '(still': 0.84; 'setup.py,': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:14:15 -0400 References: <31bef8dc-d804-454d-85c7-8de1663052a8@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <2763f908-2feb-4d2f-b422-433de26b2868@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-74-109-121-73.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1314476409 news.xs4all.nl 2482 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39769 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:12295 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