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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:22:53 +0000
Subject: Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts?
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On 20 February 2014 14:27, Piotr Dobrogost
<p@google-groups-2014.dobrogost.net> wrote:
> Is there cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files (co=
nsole scripts for instance) the same way one can use sys.executable to get =
path to the Python's interpreter in cross-platform way?
>
> Context:
> There's Python script which runs various tools like pip using subprocess =
and we would like to make sure we run tools that accompany Python's interpr=
eter used to run this script. Please note that the script may be run from w=
ithin virtualenv which had not been activated - ./venv/bin/python our_scrip=
t.py

I'm not sure if I understand the question. Are you trying to find
where a script would go if it had been installed as a result of
'python setup.py install' or 'pip install ...'? If so there are
different places it could go depending not only on the system but also
how the packages were installed (e.g. --user).

You can find the default location in this roundabout way:

In [1]: from distutils.command.install import install

In [2]: from distutils.dist import Distribution

In [3]: c =3D install(Distribution())

In [4]: c.finalize_
c.finalize_options  c.finalize_other    c.finalize_unix

In [4]: c.finalize_options()

In [5]: c.insta
c.install_base       c.install_headers    c.install_lib
c.install_path_file  c.install_platlib    c.install_scripts
c.install_usersite
c.install_data       c.install_layout     c.install_libbase
c.install_platbase   c.install_purelib    c.install_userbase

In [5]: c.install_scripts
Out[5]: '/usr/local/bin'


Oscar