How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?

Question

How do I find the location of my site-packages directory?

Answer 1

Answer to old question. But use ipython for this.

pip install ipython
ipython 
import imaplib
imaplib?

This will give the following output about imaplib package -

Type:        module
String form: 
File:        /usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py
Docstring:  
IMAP4 client.

Based on RFC 2060.

Public class:           IMAP4
Public variable:        Debug
Public functions:       Internaldate2tuple
                        Int2AP
                        ParseFlags
                        Time2Internaldate