Python discrepancies...

Rob Healey robhealey1 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 07:18:17 UTC 2012


Greetings:

Could anyone explain why there are so many discrepancies between
Python-2.7.2-12 and Python-3.3.02?

This is from Python-3.3.0a2:
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[Frog at DancingSquirrels Documents]$ python3
Python 3.3.0a2 (default, Apr 13 2012, 16:55:12)
[GCC 4.7.0 20120322 (Red Hat 4.7.0-1)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sysconfig
>>> for pathname in sysconfig.get_path_names():
...     print('%s = %s' % (pathname, sysconfig.get_path(pathname)))
...
confdir = /etc
doc = /usr/share/doc/{distribution.name}
libdir = /usr/lib
info = /usr/share/info
icon = /usr/share/pixmaps
platstdlib = /usr/local/lib/python3.3
include = /usr/local/include/python3.3m
config = /etc/{distribution.name}
purelib = /usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages
datadir = /usr/share
appdata.disposable = /var/cache/{distribution.name}
platinclude = /usr/local/include/python3.3m
appdata.persistent = /var/lib/{distribution.name}
appdata.arch = /usr/lib/{distribution.name}
platlib = /usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages
statedir = /var
help = /usr/share/{distribution.name}
appdata = /usr/share/{distribution.name}
data = /usr/local
man = /usr/share/man
local = /home/Frog/.local/{distribution.name}
stdlib = /usr/local/lib/python3.3
scripts = /usr/local/bin



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