On 15 July 2013 14:39, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm looking at the possibility of replacing the current setuptools entry > point based pip executables with Python scripts. The biggest problem is that > a script "pip.py" shadows the pip package, making "import pip" fail. > > I can get round this by deleting sys.path[0] (the location of the currently > running script) but how robust is that? Are there any corner cases where it > would break? Or alternatively, is there a better way to do this rather than > messing directly with sys.path? I suspect this is a fairly common question, > but my Google-fu is failing me :-(
Can you not just rename the pip module to _pip? Oscar _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
