Installation in custom folder
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1. One method is to use the --prefix option of setup.py. See `Python documentation <http://docs.python.org/install/index.html>`_ for more options
   

..  code-block:: sh

    python setup.py install --prefix=/home/myhome/software
    
2. You will now need to add the library location to your PYTHONPATH and the scripts location to your executables path e.g. in your ~/.cshrc file.

..  code-block:: csh

    set path = ($HOME/software/bin/ $path)
    if ($?PYTHONPATH) then
        setenv PYTHONPATH "${PYTHONPATH}:$HOME/software/lib64/python2.6/site-packages"
    else
        setenv PYTHONPATH "$HOME/software/lib64/python2.6/site-packages"
    endif