[issue8812] Show package path in repr string for packages installed to user site

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

Sridhar Ratnakumar <sridharr at activestate.com> added the comment:

On 2010-05-24, at 2:44 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> You are mistaken. It doesn't include __path__ into repr, but __file__. It prints "(built-in)" if the filename is not set for some reason.

Ok. Why is __file__ not set for modules/packages installed to user site (~/.local/), but not stdlib? Is this a bug?

Ah, I see that a "__init__.py" is missing in these packages.   Strange; gotta see how that happened in first place ..  (even stranger that I can actually import these directories...)

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