[Distutils] Pypy and site.py and makepath

[Lennart Regebro]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 17:42, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 16:07, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
>> 2. It is finding a valid site.py, but the standard import protocols (i.e.,
>> imp.find_module/load_module and
>> path_importer_cache[modulename].load_module()) are not working correctly
>> when called on an existing module.
>
> Yeah, this seems like the problem. It imports it, but neither globals
> or locals change. It's hard to say exactly what the problem is as I
> can't debug what happens in CPython, as no matter what I put into the
> local site.py, nothing seems to happen. So I't hard to me to check
> what the behaviour *should* be, but it seems clear that this is where
> the difference is.

Actually, I suddenly remembered -v, and ran python -v. and the local
site.py is *not* being imported, which explains why no matter what I
write in it it gets ignored. So there seems to be at least two
differences here.

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