This is a standard directory in any Python installation that contains all installed modules. Since Dabo is an installed Python module, it needs to either be installed in site-packages, or a dabo.pth file that points to the actual directory containing Dabo.
How to find where python's site-packages dir is:
>>> import distutils.sysconfig >>> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages'
with a little bash magic you can CD to it:
carl@asus17:~$ cd $(python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()") carl@asus17:/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages$
The directory you want to use is the one that has this init.py:
carl@asus17:~/src/projects/dabo$ head -n 1 __init__.py """ Dabo: A Framework for developing data-driven business applications
Then you either create a link to the dabo framework dir: ln -s /Users/ed/projects/dabo or create a text file that references the dir that contains the dabo package dir:
C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages>type dabo.pth c:\home\daboproject\dabo
To test to make sure you have it working right:
carl@asus17:~$ python Python 2.4.3 (#2, Oct 6 2006, 07:52:30) [GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import dabo '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dabo' not versioned, and not exported >>>