I know that after installing Python via Homebrew my include directory is here:
/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.10_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7
Is there a way I can make Python tell me where its include/lib directories are? Something along the lines of:
python -c "import sys; print '\n'.join(sys.path)"
There must be an easier way to do this from Python, I thought, and there is, in the standard library of course. Use get_paths from sysconfig :
from sysconfig import get_paths
from pprint import pprint
info = get_paths() # a dictionary of key-paths
# pretty print it for now
pprint(info)
{'data': '/usr/local',
'include': '/usr/local/include/python2.7',
'platinclude': '/usr/local/include/python2.7',
'platlib': '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
'platstdlib': '/usr/lib/python2.7',
'purelib': '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages',
'scripts': '/usr/local/bin',
'stdlib': '/usr/lib/python2.7'}
You could also use the -m switch with sysconfig to get the full output of all configuration values.
This should be OS/Python version agnostic, use it anywhere. :-)
'include': '/usr/include/python3.7m', but when I try to cd to that directory, it says "No such file or directory"
On my PC, the command is python-config --includes. Make sure you use the python-config that homebrew installed, not the default one.
python-config --help or python-config --libs.
python-config. If python-config is used to determine include path name, then it may be pointing to the include path of the python came with your OS.My one-line solution is
python -c "from sysconfig import get_paths as gp; print(gp()['include'])"
If you would like to embed the code within a Unix shell (such as bash), you have to use escaped double quotations.
python -c "from sysconfig import get_paths as gp; print(gp()[\"include\"])"