-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:30 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Open question: should we add yet another environment variable to >> control >> this? It's pretty typical for apps to expose such a thing so that >> the >> base directory (e.g. ~/.python) can be moved. > > I'd suggest to make the "~/.python" part configurable by an > env var, e.g. PYTHONRESOURCES. Since we can't use PYTHONOHOME, this works for me. > Perhaps we could use that directory for other Python-related > resources as well, e.g. an optional sys.path lookup cache (pickled > dictionary of known package/module file locations to reduces Python > startup time). Sure, why not? - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR4KTn3EjvBPtnXfVAQLQlAP/R887WX0k3VNPoiyVs3qerYBj0XQyP4DT leyFWInEamtgk1+5hL+Vu180k+EFcjEQ8d2yet3sMMVUZ4piFHEd6SdNJantVKrl YBVTHkhEBNX2qMFxYmyTwzvjaMttbIn5w9TuEG4PnNiYQv4E4HlZ9HOkRY9YuNDh UMr4e4DCZtw= =PI+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
