title: What's .pydistutils.cfg for?
body: <p>I work on two servers, and on one server .pydistutils.cfg looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>install_scripts=~/opt_old/bin
  install_data=~/opt_old/share
  install_lib=~/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I think, this creates problems with using pip and linking libraries on local versions of python. </p>
  
  <p>On the second server, the file is non existent, and I don't have any issues.</p>
  
  <p>Why do we need this file and why is PYTHONPATH not sufficient?</p>
  
  <p>I installed a local version of Python and renamed the file .pydistutils.cfg. Hence, it seems that the file is not that important.</p>