On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:37:59PM -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote: > ... > >os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'foo') just has too many > >problems. > > Could you be specific?
I suppose I was thinking about the stale .pyc file problem, mostly. zc.buildout/setuptools/distutils (I'm not sure which part of the stack is to blame) likes to compile modules in a temporary directory and then move the .py and .pyc files to their final location. As a result, __file__ points to the now-nonexistent directory. Aside: I never understood the reason for storing the value of __file__ in the .pyc/.pyo file itself. Why not set it to the correct value on import time? Marius Gedminas -- If you have to run heating in winter, you don't own enough computers.
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