On 15-jun-2006, at 23:21, Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote: > >> FWIW, this isn't at all Mac OS X specific.. >> >> $ uname -rs && pwd && ./python -c "import sys; print sys.path" >> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE >> /usr/home/bob/src/python/:colon >> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback >> ['', '/usr/local/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/home/bob/src/python/', >> 'colon/../Lib/', '/usr/home/bob/src/python/', 'colon/../Lib/plat- >> freebsd6', '/usr/home/bob/src/python/', 'colon/../Lib/lib-tk', '/usr/ >> home/bob/src/python/', 'colon/Modules'] >> >> The issue is of course that all this code is happening in C and >> expecting ':' as the delimiter. Modules/getpath.c probably should be >> refactored to use PyObject* ASAP, rather than doing it last. > > Well, it looks like that's not such a good idea either, because > Py_GetPath() is called before Python's fully initialized. Any > exception would probably make the interpreter explode. Hmm :)
The most prudent thing to do right now is to file a bug at python's SF tracker and let someone else worry about this ;-). Wouldn't it be possible to set up the right sys.path in py2app's application stub to work around this issue? Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
