>>>>> "MAL" == M <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
MAL> Anyway, regardless of how we do it, we need to add the
MAL> 'system-packages' dir to just before the '.../lib/pythonX.X'
MAL> entry in sys.path. If there's consent about this, I'd suggest
MAL> to move ahead in this direction as first step.
+1
Perhaps also backport to 2.2 and (maybe? maybe not?) 2.1.
-Barry