On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:12:48PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > However, now that it's a known bug, it's merely an engineering problem to > fix it. :)
Fantastic! I thought it was a feature, so I was unhappy, but if it's only a bug, well, I know too well that these things happen, and if nobody reports them, they don't get fixed. >> With standard Python, I can override the import mechanism using the >> PYTHONPATH. This way I can make sure that the modules I want get >> imported. And pretty much all the programs I can think of with a path >> environment variable behave like this. Now if I have a module installed >> with setuptools, I no longer have the possibility to do this, because >> setuptools inserts it self before the PYTHONPATH. > > I'm not following you here. Are you trying to specify the use of a > different version of setuptools? What do you mean by "setuptools inserts > itself before the PYTHONPATH"? Here is how things are happening (I simplified a bit the example, because I have a lot of things in my sys.path): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c "import sys; print sys.path" ['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/configobj-4.4.0-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode'] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export PYTHONPATH="/home/varoquau/python:" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -c "import sys; print sys.path" ['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/configobj-4.4.0-py2.5.egg', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/home/varoquau/python', '/home/varoquau', '/usr/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.5', '/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode'] Notice how what I added in my PYTHONPATH (the environment variable) is behind the egg. Well, what if I wanted to override configobj by my own version, in "/home/varoquau/python"? I am not able to do this without writing some Python code to monkey patch sys.path. The "$PYTHONPATH" should always come in front of everything. Are my explanations clear this time? Maybe this was not a feature, and another bug. In which case, please excuse the tone of my previous message. I should have reported the problem. I thought it was a know one, because it seems so natural to do the following in a Unix world. Cheers, Gaël _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
