[issue1116520] Prefix search is filesystem-centric

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Note that Steve Dower made some significant changes to sys.path initialisation on Windows in Python 3.6 that could potentially be generalised to other platforms: https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#finding-modules

(There's nothing inherently Windows specific about them, they're mainly useful for the case of embedding CPython inside a larger application)

One of those was to allow pythonXY.zip to be used as a sentinel indicating the location of PYTHONHOME.

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nosy: +steve.dower

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