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Here’s a simple trick to figure out where your python libraries are stored. This location can vary from distribution to distribution.

$ python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun 4 2010, 18:28:58)
[GCC 4.4.3 20100127 (Red Hat 4.4.3-4)] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.

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

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

Or simply do it all straight from a command shell.

python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"