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Author brett.cannon
Recipients barry, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, eric.smith, eric.snow, takluyver
Date 2018-06-22.21:40:41
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Windows has symlinks now I believe, you just have to turn them on.

And I would say there is no need for alternative. If a package needs to do something funky they can do it in their __init__.py file. Otherwise if I don't import a package it shouldn't get to do anything crazy through a .pth file.
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