[Import-SIG] making it feasible to rely on loaders for reading intra-package data files

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Feb 4 17:28:25 CET 2014


On Feb 05, 2014, at 01:55 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>But unfortunately, you can't even import pkg_resources to get at those
>without it version locking your entire sys.path.

Which supports my point, i.e. that the stdlib should provide reasonable
implementations of these APIs that we can promote far and wide.  But FWIW,
I've never run into the pkg_resource problems you're describing.

-Barry
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