[issue14657] Avoid two importlib copies

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Wed Apr 25 14:12:28 CEST 2012


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The question pybuildir.txt apparently tries to solve is whether Python
> is running from the build dir or not. It's not whether Python was
> installed or not.

That's the same, for all we're concerned.
But pybuilddir.txt does not only solve that problem. It also contains
the path to extension modules generated by setup.py, so that sys.path
can be setup appropriately at startup.

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