import sys
import sysconfig
import site
if __name__ == '__main__':
# This is a hack due to the distutils in debian/ubuntu's python3 being misconfigured
# see discussion https://github.com/opencog/atomspace/issues/1782
#
# If the bug is fixed, this script could be replaced by:
#
# from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib(plat_specific=True, prefix=prefix))
#
# However, using this would not respect a python virtual environments, so in a way this is better!
prefix = sys.argv[1]
# use sites if the prefix is recognized and the sites module is available
# (virtualenv is missing getsitepackages())
if hasattr(site, 'getsitepackages'):
paths = [p for p in site.getsitepackages() if p.startswith(prefix)]
if len(paths) == 1:
print(paths[0])
exit(0)
# use sysconfig platlib as the fall back
print(sysconfig.get_paths()['platlib'])