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Author steve.dower
Recipients Anthony Sottile, Chris Billington, Ivan.Pozdeev, SilentGhost, __Vano, barry, brett.cannon, cheryl.sabella, christian.heimes, eric.smith, eric.snow, ethan smith, ionelmc, jaraco, mhammond, ncoghlan, pitrou, steve.dower, takluyver, terry.reedy, veky
Date 2019-02-26.20:32:24
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> Extending sys.path is a useful use case, but doing so in pth files is problematic.

There are 100 other ways to end up in this situation though. Why is *this* one so much worse?

Can you offer an issue you hit that was caused by a .pth file that *wasn't* debuggable by listing sys.path?
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