[Patches] getpath patch (repost)

[Fred L. Drake]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
 > The patch makes Python on Unix put more trust into PYTHONHOME
 > than it did before. It also changes the landmark used by Python
 > to find the standard lib from string.py to os.py.

  The comment about Python core-dumping if it can't find exceptions.py
seems like bad news to me, which is why I haven't checked it in.  Can this
be resolved?  I think it can be a fatal error, but not a core dump.


  -Fred


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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>