[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Jan 7 22:03:27 CET 2008

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On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:30 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Open question: should we add yet another environment variable to control this? It's pretty typical for apps to expose such a thing so that the base directory (e.g. ~/.python) can be moved. I'd suggest to make the "~/.python" part configurable by an env var, e.g. PYTHONRESOURCES.

Since we can't use PYTHONOHOME, this works for me.

Perhaps we could use that directory for other Python-related resources as well, e.g. an optional sys.path lookup cache (pickled dictionary of known package/module file locations to reduces Python startup time).

Sure, why not?

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