James Wheare added the comment:
To clarify, the exception doesn't interrupt the interpreter, but the
only indication of a problem is the following message:
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
And you're then unable to import modules from site-packages.
Also, her
New submission from James Wheare :
As described here: http://james.wheare.org/notes/2009/02/import-site-
failed-use-v-for-traceback.php
The addpackage function will result in a TypeError being raised from
os.path.exists(dir) -> from os.stat(path) if the contents of an
inspected .pth f
