[Python-Dev] Order that site-packages is added to sys.path

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:00:29 -0500


Note that app developers eager to replace standard libraries, and an OS that
allowed them to do so, are the causes of the aptly named "DLL Hell" on
Windows.  It can work fine for a single app, but it's truly hell when
multiple apps resort to this, and end users don't have a prayer of sorting
out the inevitable, vicious problems.

if-you-need-your-own-xxx.py-you-know-where-to-shove-it<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim