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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 7 16:12:44 CET 2008


On Jan 7, 2008 6:32 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:01 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > We could easily resolve that issue, if we add a per-user site-packages > dir to sys.path in site.py (this is already done for Macs).

+1. I've advocated that for years.

I'm not sure what this buys given that you can do this using PYTHONPATH anyway, but because of that I also can't be against it. +0 from me. Patches for 2.6 gratefully accepted.

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