Where I should put my python scripts in Linux?

Question

My python program consists of several files:

• the main execution python script
• python modules in *.py files
• config file
• log files
• executables scripts of other languages.

All this files should be available only for root. The main script should run on startup, e.g. via upstart.
Where I should put all this files in Linux filesystem?
What's the better way for distribution my program? pip, easy_install, deb, ...? I haven't worked with any of these tool, so I want something easy for me. The minimum supported Linux distributive should be Ubuntu.

Answer 1

For sure, if this program is to be available only for root, then the main execution python script have to go to /usr/sbin/.

Config files ought to go to /etc/, and log files to /var/log/.

Other python files should be deployed to /usr/share/pyshared/.

Executable scripts of other languages will go either in /usr/bin/ or /usr/sbin/ depending on whether they should be available to all users, or for root only.

Answer 2

If only root should access the scripts, why not put it in /root/ ? Secondly, if you're going to distribute your application you'll probably need easy_install or something similar, otherwise just tar.gz the stuff if only a few people will access it?

It all depends on your scale.. Pyglet, wxPython and similar have a hughe userbase.. same for BeautifulSoup but they still tar.gz the stuff and you just use setuptools to deply it (whcih, is another option).