[Patches] getpath patch (repost)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Fred L. Drake" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 May 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>  > The patch makes Python on Unix put more trust into PYTHONHOME
>  > than it did before. It also changes the landmark used by Python
>  > to find the standard lib from string.py to os.py.
> 
>   The comment about Python core-dumping if it can't find exceptions.py
> seems like bad news to me, which is why I haven't checked it in.  Can this
> be resolved?  I think it can be a fatal error, but not a core dump.

The fatal error produces the core dump... so its not all
that bad ;-)

It could be solved by adding an exceptions.py fall-back builtin
solution to the interpreter. Fredrik had a pointer for something
like this... perhaps the two patches should go in together ?!

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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