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Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages
Date 2011-08-27 13:53 -0700
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On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:57:01 -0700 (PDT), Josh English
<Joshua.R.English@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:


> 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. 
>
	.egg files, as I recall, are basically just ZIP compressed files --
and since Python can (again, as I recall) import from a ZIP compressed
file, .egg files get added to sys.path

	(just open an interactive Python session and do

import sys
sys.path

and review the results)
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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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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