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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages |
| Date | 2011-08-27 16:14 -0400 |
| References | <31bef8dc-d804-454d-85c7-8de1663052a8@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <mailman.466.1314465528.27778.python-list@python.org> <2763f908-2feb-4d2f-b422-433de26b2868@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <B593279B-2238-48B9-A797-E92B022B6F76@semanchuk.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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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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