R. David Murray added the comment: My guess, unfortunately, is give up. There is too much code in the field that replaces sys.path with a regular list. What you propose is effectively an impossible social engineering problem. You may well also run into issues where the Python C code calls list methods directly even if sys.path is a subclass of list. (I don't know that that is true, but there are certainly places where the C code does that kind of thing).
Could you get consensus to change stdlib and pip practice? That's at least conceivable. I guess python-ideas would be the place to start for that. I'm going to close the issue, since this would be a PEP level change if you are successful. (Frankly, I don't think you are likely to be successful, but I don't hang out on python-ideas so I might be wrong :) ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24135> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
