Min RK added the comment: Thanks for the feedback, I thought it might be a long shot. I will go back to removing the *use* of the feature everywhere I can find it, since it is so problematic and rarely, if ever, desirable.
> it's an essential feature that has been documented for a very long time > https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/site.html The entirety of the documentation of this feature appears to be this sentence on that page: > Lines starting with import (followed by space or tab) are executed. No explanation or examples are given, nor any reasoning about the feature or why one might use it. > This change will basically break all Python applications This surprises me. Can you elaborate? I have not seen an application rely on executing code in .pth files. > If you believe that we can smoothly move to a world without .pth files, > you should propose an overall plan, step by step. I have no desire to remove .pth files. .pth files are a fine way to add locations to sys.path. It's .pth files *executing arbitrary code* that's the problem, very surprising, and a source of many errors (especially how it is used in setuptools). ---------- resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24534> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
