Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> added the comment:

Windows has symlinks now I believe, you just have to turn them on.

And I would say there is no need for alternative. If a package needs to do 
something funky they can do it in their __init__.py file. Otherwise if I don't 
import a package it shouldn't get to do anything crazy through a .pth file.

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