[Pythonmac-SIG] avoiding system's "easy-install.pth" with custom distribution

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> The behavior is the result of a feature added in 2.7 for Issue4865 which
> appends the site-packages directory for the Apple-supplied system Python
> to sys.path of a Python framework build.  With hindsight, I don't think
> this was a good idea


yeah, probably not....


> The path appends occur in the standard library "site" module.  You could
> patch it in your own interpreter to not include /Library/Python; you
> might be also be able to do it by supplying a "sitecustomize" module.
> See site.py for details.
>
>
Could you simply remove it from sys.path at start-up for your app?
(probably when you toss out PYTHONPATH)

-Chris

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