How to install Python modules needed by plugins?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:26:03 +0200
> From: Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>
> CC: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>, 
>  bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> >> Something like:
> >>
> >> C:\Program Files\Bazaar\site-packages
> >>
> >> I don't know if it can easily be done as part of bzr-windows-installers.
> >> But certainly we could put in 'bzr':
> >>
> >>  if sys.frozen and sys.platform == 'windows':
> >>    sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable),
> >>                                 'site-packages'))
> > 
> > Excuse me my ignorance, but why something like that is not already
> > working?  
> 
> "like that" - like what?

Like bzr (or its Python interpreter) looking in site-packages
subdirectory of some directory.

> Standalone bzr.exe uses different path for Python modules.
> 
> You can put the file path.py with the following content into your 
> plugins directory:
> 
> #------------
> import sys
> print sys.path
> #------------
> 
> And run any bzr command, e.g. `bzr rocks` and you will see what bzr.exe 
> puts into sys.path

Thanks for this.  I wish I knew this trick a few days ago, then I'd
realized much sooner that library.zip is my only chance.

> If you really want to understand what's going on under the hood you need 
> learn how py2exe tool works.

On to read about that.  Thanks again for pointing me to the right
place to look.