[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-693255 ] 2.3a2 site.py non-existing dirs
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Bugs item #693255, was opened at 2003-02-25 14:44
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Submitted By: James P Rutledge (jrut)
Assigned to: Just van Rossum (jvr)
Summary: 2.3a2 site.py non-existing dirs
Initial Comment:
In Python 2.3a2 the site.py leaves non-existing
directories in sys.path.
On my Debian Linux system, using Python 2.3a2,
the sys.path, after site.py is executed during
interpreter initialization, includes the entry
/usr/local/lib/python23.zip
although no such directory currently exists on
my system.
The module documentation contained in site.py does
state
"Non-existing directories (or non-directories)
are never added to sys.path"
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>Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2003-07-07 21:11
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Can someone with more experience with the "official" policy of of
site.py say whether or not the docs should be changed or site.py
itself?
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Comment By: James P Rutledge (jrut)
Date: 2003-05-29 12:20
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I do not know what policy is desired for the condition of
the path after executing site.py.
I found the problem when I switched to try 2.3 and used an
application I wrote which searches the path to obtain
information about installed modules. During
troubleshooting, the change in site.py from 2.2 to 2.3, to
stop removing non-existent directories in the path, became
evident as the reason for the application finding a
non-existent directory in the path.
The application was, of course, easily changed to skip
non-existent directories. The question is whether removing
of non-existent directories in the path _should_ be done by
site.py
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Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon)
Date: 2003-05-28 18:33
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I take it the docs are what needs to change and not site.py?
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Comment By: Just van Rossum (jvr)
Date: 2003-02-26 00:43
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The docs are indeed wrong.
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Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2003-02-25 19:08
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Just, does the doc still need to be updated?
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Comment By: James P Rutledge (jrut)
Date: 2003-02-25 18:56
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Additional info -- the site.py used in
Python 2.2.2 explicitly removes non-existing
and non-directory files from sys.path.
The Python 2.3 site.py does not have that
feature.
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