Jonathan, I added the logging statements and learned some more things: - when running the controllers directly it seems to add site-packages properly - when running the controllers via the _TEST() function for executing doctests it fails to add site-packages to the path - after trying to run the tests and failing to add site-packages to the path, that environment is used for the next normal web-request and does not have site-packages on the path.
i hope that helps. i'm trying to build some automated tests, and that suddenly broke the path generation. let me know if i can help track this down further. christian

