[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

Thomas Kluyver added the comment: Thanks Steve, that looks good. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubsc

[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

Steve Dower added the comment: Hopefully that's enough of a clarification. -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed type: -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.7, Python 3.8 ___

[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset 15ea3a6a320623328530e5d8da5b83c75766180b by Steve Dower in branch 'master': bpo-32699: Improves doc for .pth files in presense of a ._pth file (#5399) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/15ea3a6a320623328530e5d8da5b83c75766180b -- __

[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

Change by Steve Dower : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +5233 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

Thomas Kluyver added the comment: I'd reword the second sentence like this: > Note that .pth files (without leading underscore) will be processed only if > this file specifies ``import site``. The current wording sounds (to me) like a guarantee that .pth files will still be handled, despite

[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

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[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

Steve Dower added the comment: 1 is correct. I don't see the contradiction - maybe you could purpose a rewording? (Perhaps it currently relies on the knowledge that the site module finds and processes .pth files? -S will also suppress it.) -- ___ P

[issue32699] pythonXY._pth : unclear how .pth files are handled

New submission from Thomas Kluyver : Nicholas Tollervey has been getting Pynsist to use the new pythonXY._pth file to assemble sys.path. However, I'm not clear on how this behaves with .pth files. The docs on this (https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#finding-modules ) appear to contr