#! /usr/bin/python import sys, os.path from distutils.util import get_platform # because we use extension modules, we need a platform+version-specific # libdir. If we were using a pure-python module, this would just be "lib". plat_specifier = ".%s-%s" % (get_platform(), sys.version[0:3]) libdir = os.path.join("build", "lib" + plat_specifier) print libdir