PEP 370

[tiran]

BPO	1799
Nosy	@gpshead, @jcea, @tiran
Files	pep370.patch

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2008-05-08.20:44:14.339>
created_at = <Date 2008-01-11.21:23:28.300>
labels = ['type-feature', 'library']
title = 'PEP 370'
updated_at = <Date 2008-05-08.20:44:14.338>
user = 'https://github.com/tiran'

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actor = 'christian.heimes'
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closed_date = <Date 2008-05-08.20:44:14.339>
closer = 'christian.heimes'
components = ['Distutils', 'Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2008-01-11.21:23:28.300>
creator = 'christian.heimes'
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priority = 'critical'
resolution = 'accepted'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1799'
versions = ['Python 2.6']

[tiran]

The patch adds a per user site-packages directory and a --user option
for distutils' setup.py install. It also cleans up site.py a bit and
makes addsitepackages() extensible.

I'm going to write a mini PEP soonish.

[tiran]

The new patch adds the -s option, checks for getuid() == geteuid() and
adds sys.flags (see bpo-1816).

[gpshead]

nice. ping a mac developer for what to do with the darwin stuff that
you commented out.

It'd also be nice to have unit tests for the new behavior. Though i
don't think we have many (any?) of that type of regression test right
now. Such a test would need to setup a test user site package,
os.system another instance python with and without -s to confirm if it
saw the test site package that was just created or not followed by
cleaning it all up.

[tiran]

Future patches will be applied to the branch directly:

http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/pep370

[tiran]

The new patch applies cleanly in the trunk.

[tiran]

The PEP-370 has been accepted and the patch has been applied.