Michael R. Bernstein added the comment:
And in case it isn't clear how such a method would help, here is what the
earlier code would look like:
import os
import site
dirname = 'lib'
dirpath = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), dirname)
site.insertsitedir(1,
Michael R. Bernstein added the comment:
The lack of a left-append option for site.addsitedir(path), or an
site.insertsitedir(index, path) (which is what I would consider a better
solution), causes quite a few contortions on some hosted platforms, notably
Google App Engine, for vendored
Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org added the comment:
I would be interested in that feature as well. It's currently impossible to use
custom new versions of a python module by adding the directory with
site.addsitedir in case a old version of the module is already installed in the
python
Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk added the comment:
This sounds like something best taken to the python-ideas mailing list.
Can you do that and update the issue with the outcome of any discussion?
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Python tracker
Changes by Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org:
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priority: - normal
stage: - test needed
status: open - pending
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2
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Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org
http://bugs.python.org/issue7744
New submission from Chris Lasher chris.las...@gmail.com:
Would it be possible to add an extra option to site.addsitedir so that it
left-appends (inserts at the beginning of the list rather than the end of the
list) to sys.path the new path?
The use case for this is that sometimes the user has
Chris Lasher chris.las...@gmail.com added the comment:
One correction: by beginning of sys.path, what I really mean is, the portion
of sys.path after the initial ''. I forgot that '', the empty path, should
always be at the start of sys.path to ensure that packages and modules in the
current
