Guido writes: > As Phillip understood, I meant the environment to include the > filesystem (and on Windows, the registry -- in fact, Python on Windows > *has* exactly such a mechanism in the registry, although I believe > it's rarely used these days -- it was done by Mark Hammond to support > COM servers I believe.)
It is rarely used these days due to the fact it is truly global to the machine. These days, it is not uncommon to have multiple copies of the same Python version installed on the same box - generally installed privately into an application by the vendor - eg, Komodo and Open Office both do this to some degree. The problem with a global registry is that *all* Python installations honoured it. This meant bugs in the vendor applications, as their 'import foo' did *not* locate the foo module inside their directory, but instead loaded a completely unrelated one, which promptly crashed. A mechanism similar to .pth files, where the "declaration" of a module's location is stored privately to the installation seems a more workable approach. Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
