[Import-SIG] Do we really need to read .pth files in PEP 382?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 26, 2011, at 09:51 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>The updated PEP should be explicit about whether or not the marker
>file is required to be empty, or if the package is allowed to use it
>to store arbitrary data, though.

My preference would be for the PEP to state that the contents are ignored.

-Barry
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