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Question about python path for external plugins.

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@ -22,3 +22,11 @@ As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some direc
>> external plugins means it's automatically in their `sys.path` without
>> needing special configuration. --[[smcv]]
>> (a mostly-inactive member of Debian's Python modules packaging team)
>>> I mostly agree, but a problem arises when the external plugin we are using is not located in the same directory as the `proxy.py` file, but in a directory somewhere in a `libdir` or `libdirs` directory. Right now (for a soon-to-be published plugin I am working on) the solutions I am thinking about are:
>>>
>>> - Call ikiwiki using ``PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins ikiwiki ...``, but it is a pain to write this each time I want to use this (and any solution like creating a custom script do not seem very nice);
>>> - Make my plugin add `/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins` to its python path, but I do not know how portable this is for a non Debian distribution.
>>>
>>> Any better idea (and sorry for digging up an old post).
>>> -- [[Louis|spalax]]