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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Jan 9 15:01:04 CET 2008

On 09/01/2008, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

Only because Windows XP uses a stupidly long path with spaces in it. It's not actually hard to navigate manually to these directories.

The directories are also hidden. That does make it hard to navigate there. I know you can un-hide hidden files, but I view the hidden attribute as useful - just badly misused in this case, unless you assume that these directories are intended to be left alone by the user.

What user editing is meant to be done with extension modules installed into a site directory. Programmer editing maybe... :-)

Sorry, I had drifted slightly off topic here. I don't have a problem with user-specific extensions going in appdata, on the presumption that we're talking code only (and excluding something obscure like distutils' distutils.cfg file).

Paul.

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