[Distutils] Replacing pip.exe with a Python script

[Paul Moore]

I'm looking at the possibility of replacing the current setuptools entry
point based pip executables with Python scripts. The biggest problem is
that a script "pip.py" shadows the pip package, making "import pip" fail.

I can get round this by deleting sys.path[0] (the location of the currently
running script) but how robust is that? Are there any corner cases where it
would break? Or alternatively, is there a better way to do this rather than
messing directly with sys.path? I suspect this is a fairly common question,
but my Google-fu is failing me :-(

Sorry, I know this is a basic Python coding question - in my defence, it's
for something related to the current pip discussions :-)

Paul
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