Listen to yourself, Mattias. Now not only are you justifying a python
behavior (forcing a single sitecustomize.py to a particular directory,
effectively crippling any other software from having their own
sitecustomize.py), which no other operating system or linux distribution
does that I am aware of, but then you are saying you think ubuntu should
edit one of the most popular freely available books on the subject so
that ubuntu's version is different from all other versions (including
the one i presume most people, even on ubuntu, use: online) to reflect
this arbitrary decision.

Just something to think about.

It seems the whole reason for this issue is ubuntu's apparent need to
inject (and maintain injected) "apport_python_hook" into every single
python process that runs on ubuntu. This seems a somewhat dubious
practice to me, but that's another issue. If ubuntu really feels the
need to do this globally, it seems to me better practice that ubuntu
should patch it's python package at a lower level than hijacking the
general sitecustomize.py mechanism for itself globally.

I understand that this has been decided and there's nothing I can do
about it, except find some way to work around the issue on specifically
ubuntu, which I don't have to do on any other platform, if I want to
support this platform (which I do -- it just makes a bit sad that ubuntu
resorts to this sort of arbitrary stuff in some areas).

I also understand this is a fairly rare thing that anyone's even going
to even know about sitecustomize.py, but still I hope that in the future
maybe a better solution can be worked out.

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/usr/local/lib/python/sitecustomize.py broken due to overriding sitecustomize 
in /etc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197219
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