RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Make non-native python path handling a fallback

[Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:58 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: 
>  > Although I don't really agree with the installing of the 
> > python bits to the non-native paths, I can see where it's 
> > useful as long as the module ABI doesn't change if you're 
> > trying to distribute binary tarballs.  But with the current 
> > handling it adds module lookup costs for the native path case 
> > (which would be the norm) as well as prevents using 
> > PYTHONPATH to look to a different location for the modules.
> > 
> > The attached patch changes things so that at first, the xen 
> > module is attempted to be imported from the stock paths.  If 
> > we get an ImportError exception, then it adds /usr/lib/python 
> > to the end of the python path and imports again.
> 
> Do you prefer this to just unconditionally addding /usr/lib/python to
> the end of the path rather than the front?

Slightly, but just because having /usr/lib/python in my sys.path is
ugly :-)  I can look over it, though... patch doing that attached

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jeremy

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