On 03/17/2011 01:53 PM, Jim Fulton wrote: > It occurs to me that it would be nice if site.py could grow knowledge > of whether -S was used and not automatically mutate the path if -S was > used. That would allow -S to work robustly without having to link > anything or create a config file.
This seems entirely sensible to me (and quite easy to implement). I can't imagine why anyone would be relying on being able to do "python -S" and later import site and get the path modifications automatically, so it seems pretty much like a straightforward bugfix. And the fix is a one-liner. Issue filed with patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue11591 Carl _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig