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- <section id="module-sysconfig">
- <span id="sysconfig-provide-access-to-python-s-configuration-information"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> — Provide access to Python’s configuration information<a class="headerlink" href="#module-sysconfig" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.2.</span></p>
- </div>
- <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.12/Lib/sysconfig.py">Lib/sysconfig.py</a></p>
- <hr class="docutils" id="index-0" />
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> module provides access to Python’s configuration
- information like the list of installation paths and the configuration variables
- relevant for the current platform.</p>
- <section id="configuration-variables">
- <h2>Configuration variables<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-variables" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>A Python distribution contains a <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Makefile</span></code> and a <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyconfig.h</span></code>
- header file that are necessary to build both the Python binary itself and
- third-party C extensions compiled using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">setuptools</span></code>.</p>
- <p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> puts all variables found in these files in a dictionary that
- can be accessed using <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_config_vars" title="sysconfig.get_config_vars"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_config_vars()</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_config_var" title="sysconfig.get_config_var"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_config_var()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p>Notice that on Windows, it’s a much smaller set.</p>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_config_vars">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_config_vars</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="o"><span class="pre">*</span></span><span class="n"><span class="pre">args</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_config_vars" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>With no arguments, return a dictionary of all configuration variables
- relevant for the current platform.</p>
- <p>With arguments, return a list of values that result from looking up each
- argument in the configuration variable dictionary.</p>
- <p>For each argument, if the value is not found, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_config_var">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_config_var</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">name</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_config_var" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the value of a single variable <em>name</em>. Equivalent to
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_config_vars().get(name)</span></code>.</p>
- <p>If <em>name</em> is not found, return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>Example of usage:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sysconfig</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">sysconfig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_config_var</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Py_ENABLE_SHARED'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">0</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">sysconfig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_config_var</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'LIBDIR'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">'/usr/local/lib'</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">sysconfig</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_config_vars</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'AR'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'CXX'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="go">['ar', 'g++']</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- </section>
- <section id="installation-paths">
- <span id="id1"></span><h2>Installation paths<a class="headerlink" href="#installation-paths" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>Python uses an installation scheme that differs depending on the platform and on
- the installation options. These schemes are stored in <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> under
- unique identifiers based on the value returned by <a class="reference internal" href="os.html#os.name" title="os.name"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">os.name</span></code></a>.
- The schemes are used by package installers to determine where to copy files to.</p>
- <p>Python currently supports nine schemes:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p><em>posix_prefix</em>: scheme for POSIX platforms like Linux or macOS. This is
- the default scheme used when Python or a component is installed.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>posix_home</em>: scheme for POSIX platforms, when the <em>home</em> option is used.
- This scheme defines paths located under a specific home prefix.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>posix_user</em>: scheme for POSIX platforms, when the <em>user</em> option is used.
- This scheme defines paths located under the user’s home directory
- (<a class="reference internal" href="site.html#site.USER_BASE" title="site.USER_BASE"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">site.USER_BASE</span></code></a>).</p></li>
- <li><p><em>posix_venv</em>: scheme for <a class="reference internal" href="venv.html#module-venv" title="venv: Creation of virtual environments."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Python</span> <span class="pre">virtual</span> <span class="pre">environments</span></code></a> on POSIX
- platforms; by default it is the same as <em>posix_prefix</em>.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>nt</em>: scheme for Windows.
- This is the default scheme used when Python or a component is installed.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>nt_user</em>: scheme for Windows, when the <em>user</em> option is used.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>nt_venv</em>: scheme for <a class="reference internal" href="venv.html#module-venv" title="venv: Creation of virtual environments."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Python</span> <span class="pre">virtual</span> <span class="pre">environments</span></code></a> on Windows;
- by default it is the same as <em>nt</em>.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>venv</em>: a scheme with values from either <em>posix_venv</em> or <em>nt_venv</em> depending
- on the platform Python runs on.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>osx_framework_user</em>: scheme for macOS, when the <em>user</em> option is used.</p></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Each scheme is itself composed of a series of paths and each path has a unique
- identifier. Python currently uses eight paths:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p><em>stdlib</em>: directory containing the standard Python library files that are not
- platform-specific.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>platstdlib</em>: directory containing the standard Python library files that are
- platform-specific.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>platlib</em>: directory for site-specific, platform-specific files.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>purelib</em>: directory for site-specific, non-platform-specific files (‘pure’ Python).</p></li>
- <li><p><em>include</em>: directory for non-platform-specific header files for
- the Python C-API.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>platinclude</em>: directory for platform-specific header files for
- the Python C-API.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>scripts</em>: directory for script files.</p></li>
- <li><p><em>data</em>: directory for data files.</p></li>
- </ul>
- </section>
- <section id="user-scheme">
- <span id="sysconfig-user-scheme"></span><h2>User scheme<a class="headerlink" href="#user-scheme" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>This scheme is designed to be the most convenient solution for users that don’t
- have write permission to the global site-packages directory or don’t want to
- install into it.</p>
- <p>Files will be installed into subdirectories of <a class="reference internal" href="site.html#site.USER_BASE" title="site.USER_BASE"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">site.USER_BASE</span></code></a> (written
- as <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em></code> hereafter). This scheme installs pure Python modules and
- extension modules in the same location (also known as <a class="reference internal" href="site.html#site.USER_SITE" title="site.USER_SITE"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">site.USER_SITE</span></code></a>).</p>
- <section id="posix-user">
- <h3><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">posix_user</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#posix-user" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Path</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Installation directory</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>stdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platstdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>platlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em><span class="pre">/site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>purelib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em><span class="pre">/site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>include</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/include/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>scripts</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/bin</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>data</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
- <section id="nt-user">
- <h3><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nt_user</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#nt-user" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Path</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Installation directory</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>stdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">\Python</span><em><span class="pre">XY</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platstdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">\Python</span><em><span class="pre">XY</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>platlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">\Python</span><em><span class="pre">XY</span></em><span class="pre">\site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>purelib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">\Python</span><em><span class="pre">XY</span></em><span class="pre">\site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>include</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">\Python</span><em><span class="pre">XY</span></em><span class="pre">\Include</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>scripts</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">\Python</span><em><span class="pre">XY</span></em><span class="pre">\Scripts</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>data</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
- <section id="osx-framework-user">
- <h3><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">osx_framework_user</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#osx-framework-user" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Path</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Installation directory</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>stdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platstdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>platlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python/site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>purelib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python/site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>include</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/include/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>scripts</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em><span class="pre">/bin</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>data</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">userbase</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="home-scheme">
- <span id="sysconfig-home-scheme"></span><h2>Home scheme<a class="headerlink" href="#home-scheme" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>The idea behind the “home scheme” is that you build and maintain a personal
- stash of Python modules. This scheme’s name is derived from the idea of a
- “home” directory on Unix, since it’s not unusual for a Unix user to make their
- home directory have a layout similar to <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/</span></code> or <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/local/</span></code>.
- This scheme can be used by anyone, regardless of the operating system they
- are installing for.</p>
- <section id="posix-home">
- <h3><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">posix_home</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#posix-home" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Path</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Installation directory</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>stdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platstdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>platlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>purelib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>include</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/include/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platinclude</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/include/python</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>scripts</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em><span class="pre">/bin</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>data</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">home</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="prefix-scheme">
- <span id="sysconfig-prefix-scheme"></span><h2>Prefix scheme<a class="headerlink" href="#prefix-scheme" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>The “prefix scheme” is useful when you wish to use one Python installation to
- perform the build/install (i.e., to run the setup script), but install modules
- into the third-party module directory of a different Python installation (or
- something that looks like a different Python installation). If this sounds a
- trifle unusual, it is—that’s why the user and home schemes come before. However,
- there are at least two known cases where the prefix scheme will be useful.</p>
- <p>First, consider that many Linux distributions put Python in <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr</span></code>, rather
- than the more traditional <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/local</span></code>. This is entirely appropriate,
- since in those cases Python is part of “the system” rather than a local add-on.
- However, if you are installing Python modules from source, you probably want
- them to go in <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/local/lib/python2.</span><em><span class="pre">X</span></em></code> rather than
- <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/lib/python2.</span><em><span class="pre">X</span></em></code>.</p>
- <p>Another possibility is a network filesystem where the name used to write to a
- remote directory is different from the name used to read it: for example, the
- Python interpreter accessed as <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/local/bin/python</span></code> might search for
- modules in <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/usr/local/lib/python2.</span><em><span class="pre">X</span></em></code>, but those modules would have to
- be installed to, say, <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/mnt/</span><em><span class="pre">@server</span></em><span class="pre">/export/lib/python2.</span><em><span class="pre">X</span></em></code>.</p>
- <section id="posix-prefix">
- <h3><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">posix_prefix</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#posix-prefix" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Path</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Installation directory</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>stdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platstdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>platlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em><span class="pre">/site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>purelib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/lib/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em><span class="pre">/site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>include</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/include/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platinclude</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/include/python</span><em><span class="pre">X.Y</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>scripts</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">/bin</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>data</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
- <section id="nt">
- <h3><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">nt</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#nt" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h3>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Path</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Installation directory</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>stdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Lib</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platstdlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Lib</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>platlib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Lib\site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>purelib</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Lib\site-packages</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>include</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Include</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>platinclude</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Include</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><p><em>scripts</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em><span class="pre">\Scripts</span></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><p><em>data</em></p></td>
- <td><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><em><span class="pre">prefix</span></em></code></p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="installation-path-functions">
- <h2>Installation path functions<a class="headerlink" href="#installation-path-functions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> provides some functions to determine these installation paths.</p>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_scheme_names">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_scheme_names</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_scheme_names" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a tuple containing all schemes currently supported in
- <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_default_scheme">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_default_scheme</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_default_scheme" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the default scheme name for the current platform.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.10: </span>This function was previously named <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_get_default_scheme()</span></code> and
- considered an implementation detail.</p>
- </div>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.11: </span>When Python runs from a virtual environment,
- the <em>venv</em> scheme is returned.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_preferred_scheme">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_preferred_scheme</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">key</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_preferred_scheme" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a preferred scheme name for an installation layout specified by <em>key</em>.</p>
- <p><em>key</em> must be either <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"prefix"</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"home"</span></code>, or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">"user"</span></code>.</p>
- <p>The return value is a scheme name listed in <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_scheme_names" title="sysconfig.get_scheme_names"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_scheme_names()</span></code></a>. It
- can be passed to <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> functions that take a <em>scheme</em> argument,
- such as <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_paths" title="sysconfig.get_paths"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_paths()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.10.</span></p>
- </div>
- <div class="versionchanged">
- <p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.11: </span>When Python runs from a virtual environment and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">key="prefix"</span></code>,
- the <em>venv</em> scheme is returned.</p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig._get_preferred_schemes">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">_get_preferred_schemes</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig._get_preferred_schemes" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a dict containing preferred scheme names on the current platform.
- Python implementers and redistributors may add their preferred schemes to
- the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_INSTALL_SCHEMES</span></code> module-level global value, and modify this function
- to return those scheme names, to e.g. provide different schemes for system
- and language package managers to use, so packages installed by either do not
- mix with those by the other.</p>
- <p>End users should not use this function, but <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_default_scheme" title="sysconfig.get_default_scheme"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_default_scheme()</span></code></a> and
- <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_preferred_scheme" title="sysconfig.get_preferred_scheme"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_preferred_scheme()</span></code></a> instead.</p>
- <div class="versionadded">
- <p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.10.</span></p>
- </div>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_path_names">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_path_names</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_path_names" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a tuple containing all path names currently supported in
- <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_path">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_path</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">name</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">vars</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">expand</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_path" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return an installation path corresponding to the path <em>name</em>, from the
- install scheme named <em>scheme</em>.</p>
- <p><em>name</em> has to be a value from the list returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_path_names" title="sysconfig.get_path_names"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_path_names()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> stores installation paths corresponding to each path name,
- for each platform, with variables to be expanded. For instance the <em>stdlib</em>
- path for the <em>nt</em> scheme is: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">{base}/Lib</span></code>.</p>
- <p><a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_path" title="sysconfig.get_path"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_path()</span></code></a> will use the variables returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_config_vars" title="sysconfig.get_config_vars"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_config_vars()</span></code></a>
- to expand the path. All variables have default values for each platform so
- one may call this function and get the default value.</p>
- <p>If <em>scheme</em> is provided, it must be a value from the list returned by
- <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_scheme_names" title="sysconfig.get_scheme_names"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_scheme_names()</span></code></a>. Otherwise, the default scheme for the current
- platform is used.</p>
- <p>If <em>vars</em> is provided, it must be a dictionary of variables that will update
- the dictionary returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_config_vars" title="sysconfig.get_config_vars"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_config_vars()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p>If <em>expand</em> is set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code>, the path will not be expanded using the
- variables.</p>
- <p>If <em>name</em> is not found, raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#KeyError" title="KeyError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KeyError</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_paths">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_paths</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">scheme</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">vars</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">expand</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_paths" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a dictionary containing all installation paths corresponding to an
- installation scheme. See <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_path" title="sysconfig.get_path"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_path()</span></code></a> for more information.</p>
- <p>If <em>scheme</em> is not provided, will use the default scheme for the current
- platform.</p>
- <p>If <em>vars</em> is provided, it must be a dictionary of variables that will
- update the dictionary used to expand the paths.</p>
- <p>If <em>expand</em> is set to false, the paths will not be expanded.</p>
- <p>If <em>scheme</em> is not an existing scheme, <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_paths" title="sysconfig.get_paths"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_paths()</span></code></a> will raise a
- <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#KeyError" title="KeyError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KeyError</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- </section>
- <section id="other-functions">
- <h2>Other functions<a class="headerlink" href="#other-functions" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_python_version">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_python_version</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_python_version" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAJOR.MINOR</span></code> Python version number as a string. Similar to
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%d.%d'</span> <span class="pre">%</span> <span class="pre">sys.version_info[:2]</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_platform">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_platform</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_platform" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a string that identifies the current platform.</p>
- <p>This is used mainly to distinguish platform-specific build directories and
- platform-specific built distributions. Typically includes the OS name and
- version and the architecture (as supplied by ‘os.uname()’), although the
- exact information included depends on the OS; e.g., on Linux, the kernel
- version isn’t particularly important.</p>
- <p>Examples of returned values:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p>linux-i586</p></li>
- <li><p>linux-alpha (?)</p></li>
- <li><p>solaris-2.6-sun4u</p></li>
- </ul>
- <p>Windows will return one of:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p>win-amd64 (64bit Windows on AMD64, aka x86_64, Intel64, and EM64T)</p></li>
- <li><p>win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned)</p></li>
- </ul>
- <p>macOS can return:</p>
- <ul class="simple">
- <li><p>macosx-10.6-ppc</p></li>
- <li><p>macosx-10.4-ppc64</p></li>
- <li><p>macosx-10.3-i386</p></li>
- <li><p>macosx-10.4-fat</p></li>
- </ul>
- <p>For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns <a class="reference internal" href="sys.html#sys.platform" title="sys.platform"><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.platform</span></code></a>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.is_python_build">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">is_python_build</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.is_python_build" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code> if the running Python interpreter was built from source and
- is being run from its built location, and not from a location resulting from
- e.g. running <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">install</span></code> or installing via a binary installer.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.parse_config_h">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">parse_config_h</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">fp</span></span></em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">vars</span></span></em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.parse_config_h" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Parse a <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">config.h</span></code>-style file.</p>
- <p><em>fp</em> is a file-like object pointing to the <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">config.h</span></code>-like file.</p>
- <p>A dictionary containing name/value pairs is returned. If an optional
- dictionary is passed in as the second argument, it is used instead of a new
- dictionary, and updated with the values read in the file.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_config_h_filename">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_config_h_filename</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_config_h_filename" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the path of <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyconfig.h</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="sysconfig.get_makefile_filename">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">sysconfig.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">get_makefile_filename</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#sysconfig.get_makefile_filename" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the path of <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Makefile</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- </section>
- <section id="using-sysconfig-as-a-script">
- <span id="sysconfig-cli"></span><h2>Using <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> as a script<a class="headerlink" href="#using-sysconfig-as-a-script" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
- <p>You can use <a class="reference internal" href="#module-sysconfig" title="sysconfig: Python's configuration information"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sysconfig</span></code></a> as a script with Python’s <em>-m</em> option:</p>
- <div class="highlight-shell-session notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>python<span class="w"> </span>-m<span class="w"> </span>sysconfig
- <span class="go">Platform: "macosx-10.4-i386"</span>
- <span class="go">Python version: "3.2"</span>
- <span class="go">Current installation scheme: "posix_prefix"</span>
-
- <span class="go">Paths:</span>
- <span class="go"> data = "/usr/local"</span>
- <span class="go"> include = "/Users/tarek/Dev/svn.python.org/py3k/Include"</span>
- <span class="go"> platinclude = "."</span>
- <span class="go"> platlib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages"</span>
- <span class="go"> platstdlib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2"</span>
- <span class="go"> purelib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/site-packages"</span>
- <span class="go"> scripts = "/usr/local/bin"</span>
- <span class="go"> stdlib = "/usr/local/lib/python3.2"</span>
-
- <span class="go">Variables:</span>
- <span class="go"> AC_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD = "0"</span>
- <span class="go"> AIX_GENUINE_CPLUSPLUS = "0"</span>
- <span class="go"> AR = "ar"</span>
- <span class="go"> ARFLAGS = "rc"</span>
- <span class="go"> ...</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>This call will print in the standard output the information returned by
- <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_platform" title="sysconfig.get_platform"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_platform()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_python_version" title="sysconfig.get_python_version"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_python_version()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_path" title="sysconfig.get_path"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_path()</span></code></a> and
- <a class="reference internal" href="#sysconfig.get_config_vars" title="sysconfig.get_config_vars"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_config_vars()</span></code></a>.</p>
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