[issue33944] Deprecate and remove pth files

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org> added the comment:

On Jan 14, 2019, at 04:14, Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> As I said: editable installs (`pip install -e`) are an important use case of .pth files.

Is that true outside of virtual environments?  I care less about .pth files inside venvs, since those are typically isolated to a single development environment, and don’t affect Python applications or libraries globally.

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