[Pythonmac-SIG] sys.path for MacPython 2.3 - next set of questions

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Wed, 16 Apr 2003 01:05:43 +0200


Chris Barker wrote:

> Just van Rossum wrote:
> > > Turns out it doesn't matter: site.py will remove it if it doesn't
> > > exist.
> > 
> > Not anymore in 2.3.
> 
> So what does 2.3 do with directories on PYTHONPATH that don't exist?

Nothing, it leaves them in. The idea is that there may be importer
objects on sys.path_hooks that can handle them (see PEP 302).

Just