On Jul 11, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:

> Yes, but you can clear it out of sys.modules before executing runpy to get 
> the desired effect of falling through to the regular package (runpy wouldn't 
> import pip.__main__ so you literally just need ``del sys.modules['pip']``). 
> You could also pull the old pkgutil.extend_path() trick and use the append 
> method on the _NamespacePath object to directly add the new directory that 
> pip was installed to and then import pip.runner.main(), but that feels like 
> more of a hack to me (but then again I'm rather comfortable mucking with the 
> import system =).

Ok, Just making sure :)

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