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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:55:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Cross-platform way to get default directory for binary files like console scripts?
To: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
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On 20 February 2014 15:42, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
>
> As roundabout and advanced as that code is, it doesn't give the right answer
> for me.  It returns None.  On my Mac, after activating a virtualenv:
>
>     Python 2.7.2 (default, Oct 11 2012, 20:14:37)
>     [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on
> darwin
>     Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>     >>> from distutils.command.install import install
>     >>> from distutils.dist import Distribution
>     >>> c = install(Distribution())

You forgot to call  c.finalize_options() here which actually sets all
of these attributes.

>     >>> c.install_scripts
>     >>> c.install_scripts is None
>     True


Oscar