install-path.py

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'''
Program to output where we should locate our installed python code for the system.
It is known to work for at least some Ubuntu versions.  Hope it works elsewhere ;-)

There is no doubt a more wonderful pythonic way to do it.  If you read this and
know of this better way, please let us know, and we'll fix it.
'''
from os.path import join, isfile, isdir
import sys
#print sys.path
if (join(sys.path[1], 'dist-packages')) in sys.path:
  print join(sys.path[1], 'dist-packages')
  sys.exit(0)
for p in sys.path[1:]:
  if p != '' and isfile(join(p,'README')):
    print p
    sys.exit(0)
sys.exit(1)