[Python-Dev] Re[3]: Patch level versions and new features (Was: Some dull gc stats)

[Gerhard Häring]

"Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
> 
> > For cases like the email package or distutils, I think it's
> > perfectly OK to only provide the updates for older Python
> > releases as separate download. Both have their own way of
> > life, so IMHO this is acceptable.
> 
> In neither case, this is really possible: Once you have the package in
> the Python core, a separate installation in site-packages cannot
> override the core implementation.

This might sound clueless, but wouldn't it be a good idea to change that?
So that site-packages comes before Lib/ in sys.path?

Gerhard
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