Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: On Jan 14, 2019, at 04:02, STINNER Victor <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > I really hate .pth files because the slow down Python startup time for *all* > applications whereas .pth files are usually specific to a very few > applications using one or two specific modules. > > They can also modify the behavior of Python for all applications, with no way > to opt-out. > > I would prefer to have an opt-in option, disabled by default.
I completely agree. The other problem is that .pth-caused problems are very difficult to diagnose and debug. Essentially you have to hack site.py to break into the loading machinery. I have to believe that we can come up with a better mechanism that doesn’t suffer from these problems. Do we have a single place to capture a list of .pth use cases? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33944> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
