Re: sys.path.insert

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Marijn Schouten (hkBst) escreveu:
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> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) escreveu:
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>>> Marijn Schouten wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> this is a little snippet from the gentoo build script for lilypond
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>>>>    # lilypond python scripts *prepend* /usr/share/lilypond/${PV}/python to
>>>>    # sys.path, causing python to attempt to rebuild the pyc, which 
>>>> generates
>>>>    # sandbox errors (and is wrong anyway).  Change this policy to use
>>>>    # sys.path.append so that PYTHONPATH, set by the Makefiles, takes
>>>>    # precendence.
>>>>    grep -rlZ sys.path.insert --include \*.py ${S} | xargs -0r sed -i 
>>>> 's/sys.path.insert \?(0, /sys.path.append (/'
>>>>
>>>> any thoughts?
>> who is setting PYTHONPATH, and for what reason?
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> on my box it is set to /usr/lib/portage/pym
> The Gentoo package manager portage is written in python.

ok, and which pyc are rebuilt ?

We prepend to be sure that the .pys that we load are the ones from the 
current source package, and not from older versions that linger
around on the build system.

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