[issue33944] Deprecate and remove pth files

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

> Extending sys.path is a useful use case, but doing so in pth files is problematic.

There are 100 other ways to end up in this situation though. Why is *this* one so much worse?

Can you offer an issue you hit that was caused by a .pth file that *wasn't* debuggable by listing sys.path?

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