On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
What exactly is site.py for?
site.py is run when your interpreter starts. It loads a few things in the builtins, and add some paths in sys.path (like per-user paths, etc)
I tried installing Distribute with PyPy, and it fails, because if you start it, it runs site.py, and site.py uses makepath, but doesn't import or define it, so it fails.
Running the tests with python2.6 and it seems site.py is never run, but removing it makes the tests fail.
Any insight into this?
the tests in py26@CPYthon definitely runs site.py, but since its before the interpreter is fully available, I am not sure if you can trace it easily. now for PyPy, I am not sure how the stdlib works with it. Isn't that forked ?
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