On Jul 11, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> I'm just not seeing the downside. We control the stdlib and pip, so we know > the expected interaction and we are purposefully using the override mechanics > so it's not going to get messed up by us if we consciously use it (and > obviously have tests for it). I don't think it's especially a problem for pip. I think Daniel was just speaking how the behavior you suggested we could exploit to make this happen has been a major issue for namespace packages in the past using the other methods. However I'm not sure how it's going to work… python -m pip is going to import the pip namespace package yes? And then when pip is installed it'll shadow that, but in the original process where we ran python -m pip won't the namespace package have been cached in sys.modules already? ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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