Resolution of the library-path mess

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Sat Oct 7 19:36:41 UTC 2017


On Sat, 7 Oct 2017, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 12:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
> Fred Wright via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Makes sense.  Fedora is one of the systems where Python doesn't
> > include a "local" directory in the sys.path setup by default.
>
> Of course, no system following the FHS is supposed to have/usr/local
> in the sys,path.  That is the FHS again.

Sigh.  The "sys" in "sys.path" is the name of the Python module containing
a variety of variables and functions, including the search path for
imports.  It has nothing to do with "system".

Fred Wright


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