[Pythonmac-SIG] What should be on sys.path for MacPython 2.3

[Jack Jansen]

On Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003, at 11:47 Europe/Amsterdam, Eric Nieuwland 
wrote:

> I would like to see a repeated structure at each of ~/Library/Python, 
> /Library/Python, and possibly /Network/Library/Python. That way it 
> would be easy to try things locally (or personally) first and then 
> promote then to a higher level. Giving the order User > Machine > 
> Network.

This has two problems:
- There is a lot of code in the Python core that wouldn't understand 
it, and teaching it about this structure would be a major undertaking. 
For example, distutils expects there's a single Python tree, it won't 
be able to pick up Include files or the Makefile from different 
locations.
- The order you suggest (user->machine->network) goes against the 
Python dictum of "add functionality, but don't replace existing 
functionality", which is clear from, for instance, the place where 
site-packages is on sys.path.
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