Odd behaviour of *.pth files and Apache

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:55:25 -0500
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
> I tried searching the archives for information on this but nothing
> seemed to be germane.  I am running Python sripts as CGI under Apache
> and I have a .pth file in site-packages that includes directory that
> has another .pth in it.  Sometimes it picks up the paths in the
> second .pth and sometimes it does not.  It always seems to work if I am
> working in a location not in the ServerRoot but if I use the main site
> it does not pick up the directories in the included .pth.

I have more information now.  It seems that it recurses the .pth files
it finds in PYTHONPATH but not for directories found in the .pth files
in site-packages.  Is this expected behaviour?  The documentation
suggests that it should pick up both.

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