[issue35131] Cannot access to customized paths within .pth file

[Valentin Zhao]

Valentin Zhao <jmsqzzl at gmail.com> added the comment:

I am better just waiting you guys fixing that because it is not urgent.
On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 10:12 PM Jason R. Coombs <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com> added the comment:
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> Also, I would argue that this is an enhancement request and not a bug -
> that the prior expectation was that the .pth file is encoded in whatever
> encoding the system expects by default, and that adding support for a
> standardized encoding for .pth files is a new feature.
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> As another aside: Valentin, the technique you're using to manage packages
> is likely to run into issues with certain packages - in particular any
> packages that rely on their own `.pth` files to invoke behavior, such as
> future_fstrings (https://pypi.org/project/future-fstrings/). I learned
> about this issue in (https://github.com/jaraco/rwt/issues/29), which is
> why the rwt project adds a `sitecustomize.py` to the target directory that
> ensures .pth files are run. Just FYI.
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