How to get path to Python standard library directory?

[user]

In a Makefile (or sometimes inside python) I need the path to the
root of the Python standard lib folder used by "env python".

e.g. /usr/lib/python2.6/ or C:\Python27\Lib\

what is the best/canonical way to get that?

 

[Dave Angel]

In a Makefile (or sometimes inside python) I need the path to the root
of the Python standard lib folder used by "env python".

e.g. /usr/lib/python2.6/ or C:\Python27\Lib\

what is the best/canonical way to get that?

You could look at sys.executable. However, on my Linux, it's a symlink,
so you have to dereference that to get the directory involved.

 

[Calvin Spealman]

In a Makefile (or sometimes inside python) I need the path to the root of
the Python standard lib folder used by "env python".

e.g.  /usr/lib/python2.6/   or    C:\Python27\Lib\

what is the best/canonical way to get that?

This should get you what you're looking for. Just look relative to a
known stdlib module.

import os
stdlib_dir = os.path.dirname(os.__file__)

 

[Miki Tebeka]

You can try

PYLIB = $(shell python -c 'import distutils.sysconfig; print distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()')

(or pack the long command line in a script).