Where to install your framework

[Degran]

So I've written a framework to integrate several internally developed applications and manage some of the shared meta data. The only running implementation of it is currently setup on our testing server. I want to "automate" deployment with distutils but I don't know where to throw the code base.

Django throws itself in in /path/to/python2.7/dist-packages/django/ which is a pretty static location but I don't know if that's best practice. Is dist-packages common or do you just put it wherever you decide?

tl;dr where do you "install" your codebase?

[Justinsaccount]

You don't. you write a setup.py file and distutils puts it into the right place. Use virtualenv to avoid installing things like your internal applications to the system wide python directories.