/usr/lib vs /usr/lib64
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Mon Aug 31 01:08:30 UTC 2009
online.service.com at gmail.com wrote:
> It seems i have two python2.6 folders located in /usr/lib vs
> /usr/lib64 respectively. Most python stuff (source) is in
> /usr/lib64/python2.6 but when in installed packages they have been
> put into /usr/lib/python2.6
Architecture-dependent python modules go in /usr/lib64/python*, while
architecture-independent modules go in /usr/lib/python*. Python's
module path checks both for modules when importing.
> How the system decides which directory to go when python is
> requested, and how it finds the packaged i installed?
Properly packaged modules in Fedora use get_python_lib() from
distutils.sysconfig.
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