[Pythonmac-SIG] Yet another problem with two Pythons on Panther

[Stuart Bishop]

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On 06/12/2003, at 1:05 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> This could probably be fixed by adding a -F/System/Library/Frameworks 
> to the builds, but I don't think we can do this for the existing 
> 10.3/2.3 distribution. Or can someone think of a workaround?

Add /Library/Python/2.3/sitecustomize.py:

	# Add a directory to the start of sys.path so we can override
	# modules shipped with OSX without actually modifying anything in
	# /System
	import sys
	if sys.version_info[:3] == (2, 3, 0):
		sys.path.insert(0, '/Library/Python/2.3.0-patches')

Then stick a patched version of distutils in 
/Library/Python/2.3.0-patches
to overshadow the real one.

Extra points for renaming any existing 
/Library/Python/2.3/sitecustomize.py
and importing it at the end of the new one.


Hmmm.... I wonder if this gross and incredibly stupid hack would work?
/Library/Python/2.3/sitecustomize.py:

	import sys, os
	if sys.version_info == (2, 3, 0, 'final', 0):
		# Relaunch with patch release Python
		os.execl(
			'/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/bin/python',
			sys.argv
			)

:-)

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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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