Re: getting a python module accepted by python?

[Andreas Voegele <andreas.voegele@gmx.de>]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:

> Is there a way to make a site-packages/foo/foo.py without requiring
> a change in programs calling foo?

The latest python-numeric package puts its files into
site-packages/Numeric and creates a file called
site-packages/Numeric.pth which contains the directory name "Numeric"
(without quotes).

There's something about .pth files in
file:/usr/share/doc/python/html/lib/module-site.html.

> Also, sorry to get off topic, but should the postinst compile the
> module?  Won't this happen the first time the module is imported?

Probably only if the Python interpreter is run by root since other
users cannot write to the site-packages directory.