[Python-Dev] Deprecate PEP 370 Per user site-packages directory?

[Oleg Broytman]

Hi!

On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> PEP 370 [1] was my first PEP that got accepted. I created it exactly one
> decade and two days ago for Python 2.6 and 3.0. Back then we didn't have
> virtual environment support in Python. Ian Bicking had just started to
> create the virtualenv project a couple of months earlier.
> 
> Fast forward 10 years...
> 
> Nowadays Python has venv in the standard library. The user-specific
> site-packages directory is no longer that useful.

   Can I disagree?

> I would even say it's
> causing more trouble than it's worth. For example it's common for system
> script to use "#!/usr/bin/python3" shebang without -s or -I option.

   System scripts are run under user root which seldom has user-specific
site-packages so why worry?

> I propose to deprecate the feature and remove it in Python 4.0.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
> [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/

Oleg.
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