Add some commonly used python macros (ticket #83)

- macros to determine python version and library paths

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/macros.in b/macros.in
index 4bd81cb32..af4ac1ff4 100644
--- a/macros.in
+++ b/macros.in
@@ -1146,6 +1146,13 @@ done \
 %perl_privlib	%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:installprivlib`"; echo $installprivlib)
 
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Useful python macros for determining python version and paths
+#
+%python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
+%python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
+%python_version %(%{__python} -c "import sys; print sys.version[:3]")}
+
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # arch macro for all Intel i?86 compatibile processors
 #  (Note: This macro (and it's analogues) will probably be obsoleted when
 #   rpm can use regular expressions against target platforms in macro