[Python-Dev] Failures in test_site.py - how to debug?

[Steve Dower]

On 19Aug2016 1410, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 2) Change the test to somehow disable .pth execution while keeping the
> rest of site.py intact. This gives more consistent test results, but
> still is mostly applicable to normal usage.

If you start the process with "-S", then run:

     import site
     site.addpackage = lambda *a: None
     site.main()
     # rest of the test

Then that should do it. This will cut out all .pth processing, but 
shouldn't affect any of the other steps.

Cheers,
Steve