简而言之:不要这样做。将该路径称为“ / usr / lib / python * 2.6 * / site-packages /”的原因有很多。
原因之一是,通常在此目录中存储“已编译”的python文件(.pyc)。python 2.6和python 2.7 .pyc文件不兼容:
$ python2.7 /usr/lib/python2.6/sitecustomize.pyc
RuntimeError: Bad magic number in .pyc file
python会跳过它无法理解的pyc文件,但是您至少会失去预编译文件的好处。
另一个原因是,事情可能会混淆:
$ strace -f python2.7 /usr/lib/python2.6/sitecustomize.py
...
stat("/etc/python2.6", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/python2.6", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/python2.6/apport_python_hook", 0x7fffa15601f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/python2.6/apport_python_hook.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/python2.6/apport_python_hookmodule.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/python2.6/apport_python_hook.py", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/python2.6/apport_python_hook.pyc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/python2.7/apport_python_hook", 0x7fffa15601f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/python2.7/apport_python_hook.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/python2.7/apport_python_hookmodule.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/python2.7/apport_python_hook.py", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/python2.7/apport_python_hook.pyc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2/apport_python_hook", 0x7fffa15601f0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...
在您的情况下,我会在python2.7目录中安装python 2.7所需的模块。
您可能需要看一下手册页中描述PYTHONHOME的部分:
PYTHONHOME:更改标准Python库的位置。默认情况下,在$ {prefix} / lib / python [version]和$ {exec_prefix} / lib / python [version]中搜索这些库,其中$ {prefix}和$ {exec_prefix}是与安装有关的目录,默认情况下到/ usr / local
您可以将python 2.7特定文件/模块存储在本地安装中的相应目录中。仅当您运行特定版本的python时,才会选择这些文件/模块。在这种情况下,您不得设置PYTHONPATH(或PYTHONHOME)。
注意:这正是Debian(可能还有其他发行版)管理同时安装的不同python版本的方式。