{"id":123,"date":"2011-12-06T21:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:08:46","slug":"getting-sys-path-out-of-buildout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2011\/12\/06\/getting-sys-path-out-of-buildout\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting sys.path out of buildout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wrinkly part of <a href=\"http:\/\/pypi.python.org\/pypi\/zc.buildout\">buildout<\/a>&#8216;s design is that the PYTHONPATH is not easily available outside of scripts generated by buildout itself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using the following workaround in some of my development tools for a while and found it quite helpful, even though it&#8217;s hacky and rough around the edges:<\/p>\n<pre>#!\/bin\/bash\r\nif [ ! -e bin\/wpy ]; then\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bin\/buildout install wpy\r\nfi\r\nexport PYTHONPATH=$(bin\/wpy -c \"import sys; print ':'.join([p for p in sys.path if not p.startswith('\/usr')])\")\r\n# do real work here<\/pre>\n<p>This needs a part that installs a python interpreter into the buildout; I&#8217;m using this in my ~\/.buildout\/default.cfg, since all projects I deal with have a [test] part:<\/p>\n<pre>[wpy]\r\nrecipe = zc.recipe.egg\r\neggs = ${test:eggs}\r\ninterpreter = wpy<\/pre>\n<p>A variation on this theme is this script which generates a TAGS file without the need for a special recipe (like <a href=\"http:\/\/pypi.python.org\/pypi\/z3c.recipe.tag\">z3c.recipe.tag<\/a>) just to get the PYTHONPATH:<\/p>\n<pre>#!\/bin\/bash\r\nif [ ! -e bin\/wpy ]; then\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 bin\/buildout install wpy\r\nfi\r\nexport IFS=\r\nPATHS=$(bin\/wpy -c \"import sys; print '\\n'.join([p for p in sys.path if not p.startswith('\/usr')])\")\r\necho $PATHS | ctags --python-kinds=-i -R -e -L -<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wrinkly part of buildout&#8216;s design is that the PYTHONPATH is not easily available outside of scripts generated by buildout itself. I&#8217;ve been using the following workaround in some of my development tools for a while and found it quite helpful, even though it&#8217;s hacky and rough around the edges: #!\/bin\/bash if [ ! -e &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2011\/12\/06\/getting-sys-path-out-of-buildout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting sys.path out of buildout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10315341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10221],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFP3y-1Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":268,"url":"https:\/\/blog.gocept.com\/2012\/11\/09\/python-2-and-3-compatible-builds-with-zc-buildout\/","url_meta":{"origin":123,"position":0},"title":"Python 2 and 3 compatible builds with zc.buildout","author":"","date":"November 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Creating a single-source build environment with zc.buildout that works for both Python 2 and 3 is a bit of a hassle. 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