Re: Proposal and questions about PEP 420

Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.import
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:58:41 +0200
"Martin v. Löwis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 13.05.2012 17:33, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > -1. It would create a very busy toplevel directory. There's a reason
> > people nest directories...
> 
> Alas, thanks to egg files, we already have busy toplevel directories,
> which extend into long sys.path lists.

I don't think it's egg files themselves, but the habit
setuptools/distribute has to extend sys.path as part of its pth files.

Regards

Antoine.
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