[Python-Dev] pkgutil, pkg_resource and Python 3.0 name space packages

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:30 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>> Open question: should we add yet another environment variable to  
>> control
>> this?  It's pretty typical for apps to expose such a thing so that  
>> the
>> base directory (e.g. ~/.python) can be moved.
>
> I'd suggest to make the "~/.python" part configurable by an
> env var, e.g. PYTHONRESOURCES.

Since we can't use PYTHONOHOME, this works for me.

> Perhaps we could use that directory for other Python-related
> resources as well, e.g. an optional sys.path lookup cache (pickled
> dictionary of known package/module file locations to reduces Python
> startup time).

Sure, why not?

- -Barry

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