I'm trying to programmaticall y install something built using distutils. I
found distutils.core. run_setup and can use it via
Is that the recommended way to do an install from inside Python (as opposed
to doing it on the command line)?
If so, how can I find where the thing(s) I installed now resides? I saw
dist.packages but that just has top-level package names. I could __import__
these (and then use module.__file__ ), but that's not a good solution as it
may run code I don't want run. On my machine, I can see the packages have
been installed under the system's python2.5/site-packages directory. But
how can I determine that programmaticall y? I don't see anything useful on
the distutils.dist. Distribution instance I'm getting back from run_setup.
Thanks!
Terry
found distutils.core. run_setup and can use it via
>>dist = run_setup('setu p.py', ['-q', 'install'])
to doing it on the command line)?
If so, how can I find where the thing(s) I installed now resides? I saw
dist.packages but that just has top-level package names. I could __import__
these (and then use module.__file__ ), but that's not a good solution as it
may run code I don't want run. On my machine, I can see the packages have
been installed under the system's python2.5/site-packages directory. But
how can I determine that programmaticall y? I don't see anything useful on
the distutils.dist. Distribution instance I'm getting back from run_setup.
Thanks!
Terry