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

A side-note: The proposed solution (distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()) does not work when there is more than one site-packages directory (as recommended by this article). It will only return the main site-packages directory.

Alas, I have no better solution either. Python doesn't seem to keep track of site-packages directories, just the packages within them.