Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> writes: > pygtk and pygobject both come with .pth files that instruct Python to > check out the "gtk-2.0" subdirectory, yet these files are seemingly > ignored as (according to strace) Python makes no attempt to look inside > the declared subdirectories when Solfege starts up.
I had the same experience trying to package nmap (still lying around in a branch). The #python IRC channel on Freenode told me that indeed .pth files in PYTHONPATH aren't used, only those in some system paths. I can't remember the details, but Python's documentation should tell. Taylan
