16 May
2009
16 May
'09
3 p.m.
Paul Moore wrote:
2009/5/9 Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk>:
I thought .pth files just had python in them? Not at all - they never did. They have paths in them. I've certainly seen them with python in, and that's what I hate about
Martin v. Löwis wrote: them...
AIUI, there was a small special case that lines starting with "import" are executed (see the source of site.py for details). This exception has been exploited (some would say "abused", but I'm trying to be unbiased here) by setuptools, at least, to do path manipulations and such.
Abused is definitely the right word, I suppose it's too late to correct this bug? How about for Python 3? cheers, Chris