location of twitter.py file (python-twitter library) in Mac OS X 10.6.7 with Python 2.6.7

Question

I have python 2.6.7 installed in my mac (/usr/local/bin/python). Previously, I installed python-twitter library. I follow these steps when I installed it:

1. tar -xvf python-twitter-0.8.3.tar.gz
2. cd python-twitter-0.8.3
3. python setup.py build
4. python setup.py install

But, right now, I want to modify the twitter.py file generated when I installed the module. I have tried to find it in python's site-packages directory, but I couldn't find it.

For your information, here is the PYTHONPATH:
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/oauth2-1.5.170-py2.6.egg
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/simplejson-2.1.6-py2.6-macosx-10.4-x86_64.egg
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/lxml-2.3-py2.6-macosx-10.4-x86_64.egg
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_twitter-0.8.2-py2.6.egg
/usr/local/lib/python26.zip
/usr/local/lib/python2.6
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/plat-darwin
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/plat-mac
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-tk
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-old
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload
/Users/username/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages

I have used the 'locate' command to find it in all folders, but still couldn't find it.

Anyone know where to find the twitter.py file?

Pons

I'm not clear what you are saying - does '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/python_twitter-0.8.3-py2.6.egg exist? – Palaestra

Could you tell us everything on your PYTHONPATH? That would be sys.path in python. – Sauerbraten

Answer 1

It's inside the .egg file, which is actually a zip archive.

/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages-> zipinfo python_twitter-0.8.2-py2.6.egg
Archive:  python_twitter-0.8.2-py2.6.egg   60381 bytes   8 files
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx   122153 b- defN 16-Apr-11 16:57 twitter.py
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx   128307 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 twitter.pyc
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx        1 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 EGG-INFO/dependency_links.txt
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx    25334 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 EGG-INFO/PKG-INFO
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx       28 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 EGG-INFO/requires.txt
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx      397 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 EGG-INFO/SOURCES.txt
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx        8 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 EGG-INFO/top_level.txt
-rw-r--r--  2.0 unx        1 b- defN 28-Jun-11 09:14 EGG-INFO/zip-safe
8 files, 276229 bytes uncompressed, 59457 bytes compressed:  78.5%

If you want to make changes, the easiest thing to do is to edit the file BEFORE you run setup.py. In your case, just make your changes and re-run setup.py again.

Pulque

Thanks a lot, I tried to edit the file Before I run the setup.py and it works! =D – Pons

Answer 2

What about a simple

import twitter
print(twitter.__path__)

to find out where it is? Also, repr(twitter) should be something like

<module 'twitter' from '/path/you/want/twitter.py'>

You might also want to use virtualenv to set up a nice sandbox for testing your modifications before applying them system-wide.

Kelpie

Thanks for the answer, the second method works for me, but not for the first one. :) – Pons