Message 113511 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

heapq tries to import _heapq but, at this point, the build dir (such as "build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.2/") hasn't been added to sys.path

The problem only exists for developers, not for an installation copy of Python?

This particular problem indeed (for developers and for buildbots - see the weird test_heapq failures on some OS X buildbots).

Another approach is to call required site code earlier (eg. rewrite it in C and execute it before loading the locale module).

Indeed, but since it calls sysconfig.get_platform(), I'm not sure how much code would need to be rewritten in C.