[SciPy-Dev] numpydoc installation and path

[Pauli Virtanen]

06.02.2012 22:23, Denis Laxalde kirjoitti:
> While trying to build scipy's documentation, I had to install numpydoc
> (python setup.py --install --user). This apparently generates an
> 'easy-install.pth' file which contains:
> 
>  import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
>  ./numpydoc-0.4-py2.6.egg
>  /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6
>  import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:]; p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert = p+len(new)
> 
> This happens to break the python path prepending
> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6 and numpydoc-0.4-py2.6.egg.
> 
> What is the purpose of this? Is that intended?

That's some setuptools stuff. Probably nothing specific to numpydoc, but
would happen for any setuptools-using package:

http://packages.python.org/distribute/

http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall