Message320754
I think we also need to clearly separate two distinct aspects of .pth files:
1. "import <module>; <arbitrary code execution goes here>" lines <--- Kill it with fire
2. "<add this directory to sys.path>" lines <--- This is fine and good and perfectly sensible
It's point 2 that powers things like "pew add", and I don't see any particularly compelling reason to get rid of it.
The "arbitrary code invocation for every single Python execution using that environment" aspect, on the other hand, is mostly a PITA, and used as a workaround for other features being missing (e.g. the PYTHONRUNFIRST proposal in https://bugs.python.org/issue14803). |
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2018-06-30 06:37:48 | ncoghlan | set | recipients:
+ ncoghlan, mhammond, barry, brett.cannon, pitrou, eric.smith, christian.heimes, eric.snow, takluyver, Ivan.Pozdeev, ethan smith |
2018-06-30 06:37:48 | ncoghlan | set | messageid: <1530340668.37.0.56676864532.issue33944@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2018-06-30 06:37:48 | ncoghlan | link | issue33944 messages |
2018-06-30 06:37:47 | ncoghlan | create | |
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