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@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ distdir = os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib', 'python'+sys.version[:3],
'dist-packages')
sys.path.append(distdir)
+# Some distros may have the python library in a directory other than lib/
+# such as Lib/ or lib64/. Hopefully they will have hacked
+# site.getsitepackages() to return the right thing.
+try:
+ import site
+ sys.path.extend(site.getsitepackages())
+ del site
+except (ImportError, AttributeError):
+ pass
+
# In a normal interactive Python environment, the japanese.pth and korean.pth
# files would be imported automatically. But because we inhibit the importing