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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-09-08 02:02:37 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-09-08 02:02:37 (GMT)
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Change packages to site-packages (so it's clearly not a package itself).
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@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ It starts by constructing up to four directories from a head and a
tail part. For the head part, it uses \code{sys.prefix} and
\code{sys.exec_prefix}; empty heads are skipped. For
the tail part, it uses the empty string (on Mac or Windows) or it uses
-first \file{lib/python\var{version}/packages} and then
+first \file{lib/python\var{version}/site-packages} and then
\file{lib/site-python} (on Unix). For each of the distinct head-tail
combinations, it sees if it refers to an existing directory, and if
so, adds to \code{sys.path}, and also inspected for path configuration
files.
\indexii{site-python}{directory}
-\indexii{packages}{directory}
+\indexii{site-packages}{directory}
A path configuration file is a file whose name has the form
\file{\var{package}.pth}; its contents are additional items (one
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ refers to a directory (rather than a file). No item is added to
For example, suppose \code{sys.prefix} and \code{sys.exec_prefix} are
set to \file{/usr/local}. The Python 1.5 library is then installed in
\file{/usr/local/lib/python1.5}. Suppose this has a subdirectory
-\file{/usr/local/python1.5/packages} with three subsubdirectories,
+\file{/usr/local/python1.5/site-packages} with three subsubdirectories,
\file{foo}, \file{bar} and \file{spam}, and two path configuration
files, \file{foo.pth} and \file{bar.pth}. Assume \file{foo.pth}
contains the following:
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ bar
Then the following directories are added to sys.path, in this order:
\bcode\begin{verbatim}
-/usr/local/python1.5/packages/bar
-/usr/local/python1.5/packages/foo
+/usr/local/python1.5/site-packages/bar
+/usr/local/python1.5/site-packages/foo
\end{verbatim}\ecode
Note that \file{bletch} is omitted because it doesn't exist; the