[Distutils] Can't count on -S to get a clean Python (at least on mac)

[Jim Fulton]

On my mac (Snow Leopard):

$ which python
/usr/bin/python

$ python -S
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
>>> import setuptools
>>> setuptools.__file__
'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python/setuptools/__init__.pyc'
>>> import os
>>> os.listdir('/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Extras/lib/python')
['altgraph', 'altgraph-0.6.8.dev-py2.6.egg-info', 'bdist_mpkg',
'bdist_mpkg-0.4.3.dev-py2.6.egg-info', 'bonjour',
'bonjour_py-0.3-py2.6.egg-info', 'CoreGraphics', 'dateutil',
'easy_install.py', 'easy_install.pyc', 'ez_setup', 'fetchmailconf.py',
'fetchmailconf.pyc', 'fetchmailconf.pyo', 'libsvn', 'macholib',
'macholib-1.2.1.dev-py2.6.egg-info', 'modulegraph',
'modulegraph-0.7.2.dev-py2.6.egg-info', 'numpy',
'numpy-1.2.1-py2.6.egg-info', 'OpenSSL', 'pkg_resources.py',
'pkg_resources.pyc', 'py2app', 'py2app-0.4.2-py2.6.egg-info',
'PyObjC', 'PyObjC.pth', 'pyOpenSSL-0.7-py2.6.egg-info',
'PyRSS2Gen-1.0.0-py2.6.egg-info', 'PyRSS2Gen.py', 'PyRSS2Gen.pyc',
'python_dateutil-1.2-py2.6.egg-info', 'setuptools',
'setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg-info', 'site.py', 'site.pyc', 'site.pyo',
'svn', 'twisted', 'Twisted-8.2.0-py2.6.egg-info',
'wx-2.8-mac-unicode', 'wx.pth', 'wxaddons',
'wxaddons-2.8.8.1-py2.6.egg-info',
'wxPython_common-2.8.8.1-py2.6.egg-info', 'wxversion.py',
'wxversion.pyc', 'xattr', 'xattr-0.5-py2.6.egg-info', 'zope',
'zope.interface-3.5.1-py2.6.egg-info']

whimper

I get something similar on a Lion machine.

I haven't been able to reproduce this lamosity on any linux systems.

Jim

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