Understanding .pth in site-packages

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/27/2011 2:07 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>
> On Aug 27, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Josh English wrote:
>
>> Philip,
>>
>> Yes, the proper path should be c:\dev\XmlDB, which has the
>> setup.py, xmldb subfolder, the docs subfolder, and example
>> subfolder, and the other text files proscribed by the package
>> development folder.
>>
>> I could only get it to work, though, by renaming the xmldb folder
>> in the site-packages directory, and deleting the egg file created
>> in the site-packages directory.
>>
>> Why the egg file, which doesn't list any paths, would interfere I
>> do not know.
>>
>> But with those changes, the xmldb.pth file is being read.
>>
>> So I think the preferred search order is:
>>
>> 1. a folder in the site-packages directory 2. an Egg file (still
>> unsure why) 3. A .pth file
>
>
> That might be implementation-dependent or it might even come down to
> something as simple as the in which order the operating system
> returns files/directories when asked for a listing.

Doc says first match, and I presume that includes first match within a 
directory.

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Terry Jan Reedy