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dist-packages is a Debian-specific convention that is also present in its derivatives, like Ubuntu. Modules are installed to dist-packages when they come from the Debian package manager into this location:

dist-packages 是 Debian特定慣例，這也存在於像是ubuntu上。 如果使用Debian軟體管理器安裝， 模組將被安裝到 dist-packages：

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

Since easy_install and pip are installed from the package manager, they also use dist-packages, but they put packages here:

自從 easy_install 和 pip (注： 是python的軟體管理其，python有許許多多的軟體) 使用，他們也使用 dist-packages,但是 路徑是：

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

dist-packages instead of site-packages. Third party Python software installed from Debian packages goes into dist-packages, not site-packages. This is to reduce conflict between the system Python, and any from-source Python build you might install manually.

dist-packages取代了site-packages。從Debian安裝包安裝的第三方的Python軟體 被 安裝到 dist-packages,不是 site-packages.這是為了減少，系統自帶python 和 你手動安裝的python 之間的衝突。

This means that if you manually install Python from source, it uses the site-packages directory. This allows you to keep the two installations separate, especially since Debian and Ubuntu rely on the system version of Python for many system utilities.

這就是說，如果你手動安裝python，它會直接使用目錄site-packages。這允許你讓兩個安裝隔離開來，特別是因為Debian 和 Ubuntu 應用 python的系統版本 到 許多的系統實體。

查詢Python 安裝路徑： THIS

>>> from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
>>> print(get_python_lib())

轉載自“https://www.cnblogs.com/kevin922/p/3161411.html”