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  r70778 | ronald.oussoren | 2009-03-30 18:10:35 -0500 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) | 4 lines

  Fix issue #4865: add /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages to
  sys.path on OSX, to make it easier to share (some) installed
  packages between the system install and a user install.
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Lib/site.py

@@ -268,13 +268,15 @@ def addsitepackages(known_paths):
 
         if sys.platform == "darwin":
             # for framework builds *only* we add the standard Apple
-            # locations. Currently only per-user, but /Library and
-            # /Network/Library could be added too
+            # locations.
             if 'Python.framework' in prefix:
                 sitedirs.append(
                     os.path.expanduser(
                         os.path.join("~", "Library", "Python",
                                      sys.version[:3], "site-packages")))
+                sitedirs.append(
+                        os.path.join("/Library", "Python",
+                            sys.version[:3], "site-packages"))
 
     for sitedir in sitedirs:
         if os.path.isdir(sitedir):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-+++++++++++
-Python News
++++++++++++ Python News
 +++++++++++
 
 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
@@ -18,6 +17,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Issue #5126: str.isprintable() returned False for space characters.
 
+- Issue #4865: On MacOSX /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages is added to
+  the end sys.path, for compatibility with the system install of Python.
+
 - Issue #4688: Add a heuristic so that tuples and dicts containing only
   untrackable objects are not tracked by the garbage collector. This can
   reduce the size of collections and therefore the garbage collection overhead