!site --- Site-specific configuration hook — Startup file examples
For example, suppose sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to /usr/local.
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For example, suppose sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are set to /usr/local. The Python X.Y library is then installed in /usr/local/lib/python{X.Y}. Suppose this has a subdirectory /usr/local/lib/python{X.Y}/site-packages with three sub-subdirectories, foo, bar and spam, and two path configuration files, foo.pth and bar.pth. Assume foo.pth contains the following
# foo package configuration
# bar package configuration
Then the following version-specific directories are added to sys.path, in this order
/usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/bar /usr/local/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/foo
Note that bletch is omitted because it doesn't exist; the bar directory precedes the foo directory because bar.pth comes alphabetically before foo.pth; and spam is omitted because it is not mentioned in either path configuration file.
Let's say that there is also a foo.start file containing the followin
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