PythonPath overriding use of Python*Handler directory.
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Key: MODPYTHON-154
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-154
Project: mod_python
Type: Sub-task
Components: importer
Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
Assigned to: Graham Dumpleton
The behaviour of the old importer is such that if the PythonPath directive has
been used in the same or parent configuration context, then any physical
directory corresponding to where the Python*Handler directive was used, is not
added to sys.path.
The new importer currently preserves the above behaviour, but since the new
importer does not actually add the directory associated with the Python*Handler
directive into sys.path, it doesn't seem to make any sense that setting
PythonPath should cause the directory the Python*Handler directive is
associated with to be ignored.
Thus propose that PythonPath should be kept quite distinct from directories in
document tree for which Python*Handler is specified for and setting PythonPath
will would no longer cause directory Python*Handler directive is specified for
to be ignored.
Overall, this should actually eliminate unexpected behaviour whereby user sets
PythonPath and then finds their modules in document tree can't be found. The
only solution to this with the old importer is to add the directories in the
document tree explicitly to PythonPath directive.
If there is some valid reason that the new importer should never look in the
document tree for modules, then it would be better handled by some sort of
PythonOption rather than it be a side effect of having used the PythonPath
directive.
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