On Monday 02 August 2004 01:38 pm, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
The PYTHONDISTUTILSPATH would allow this without having to change any code, even though it's considered dangerous.
Agreed; I wasn't objecting to using an environment variable for this, or to exposing some sort of distutils.path. I think what goes into the path is module names, not directory names, though, so it's a tiny bit different from sys.path in construction.
Providing distutils.path would also allow munging the path in e.g. sitecustomize.py which is probably what you have in mind.
Actually, no, I was thinking of loading a setting from the configuration file, which allows per-installation and per-user configuration. That also avoids importing distutils in sitecustomize, which I consider a good thing (the fewer things that affect Python's startup, the better!).
-Fred