Function getusersitepackages

Lib/site.py:350–365

Returns the user-specific site-packages directory path. If the global variable ``USER_SITE`` is not initialized yet, this function will also set it.

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def getusersitepackages():
    """Returns the user-specific site-packages directory path.

    If the global variable ``USER_SITE`` is not initialized yet, this
    function will also set it.
    """
    global USER_SITE, ENABLE_USER_SITE
    userbase = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE

    if USER_SITE is None:
        if userbase is None:
            ENABLE_USER_SITE = False # disable user site and return None
        else:
            USER_SITE = _get_path(userbase)

    return USER_SITE

def addusersitepackages(known_paths):
    """Add a per user site-package to sys.path