[Python-apps-team] packaging question - app installation directories

[Steve Conklin]

Hi,

  I'm working on packaging a python app (d-rats) for debian, this is
the first time I've dealt with
packaging a python app.

  The app is set up to install its own modules in site-packages or
dist-packages (and looks for
them there), but they end up in
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/d_rats/platform.pyc. Are they ending
up here because the dh tools automatically put them there? Is there a
document describing the
correct python installation directories for Debian?

Thanks,

Steve Conklin