Paul Moore wrote:
2009/5/9 Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk>:
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
I thought .pth files just had python in them?
Not at all - they never did. They have paths in them.
I've certainly seen them with python in, and that's what I hate about
them...
AIUI, there was a small special case that lines starting with "import"
are executed (see the source of site.py for details). This exception
has been exploited (some would say "abused", but I'm trying to be
unbiased here) by setuptools, at least, to do path manipulations and
such.
Abused is definitely the right word, I suppose it's too late to correct
this bug?
How about for Python 3?
cheers,
Chris
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