What is the best way to get the target install dir from distutils when
python setup.py install
is run.
Eg, on a standard python install to /usr/local I want
/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages
and on a standard win32 python installation I want
c:\\Python23\\L ib\\site-packages
I also want to handle the case when an alternate prefix is installed.
To to ask the question another way. I want to add SomeFile.pth to the
install dir. For various reasons, extra_path is not a good choice for
me. I just want to copy a file SomeFile.pth to the site-packages dir.
My workaround is to treat SomeFile.pth as a data_file, and add it to
the site-packages dir (stored in sitep) with
data_files = [ (sitep, 'SomeFile.pth') ]
setup(name="som emod",
..snip...
ext_modules = ext_modules,
data_files=data _files,
)
Thanks,
John Hunter