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authorTim D. Smith2016-11-07 06:58:05 -0800
committerGitHub2016-11-07 06:58:05 -0800
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Merge pull request #821 from chhantyal/patch-1
Do not recommend pydistutils.cfg hack, this breaks default pip command
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pip install --user --install-option="--prefix=" <package-name>
-You can make this "empty prefix" the default by adding a `~/.pydistutils.cfg` file with the following contents:
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- [install]
- prefix=
-
## `site-packages` and the `PYTHONPATH`
The `site-packages` is a directory that contains Python modules (especially bindings installed by other formulae). Homebrew creates it here: