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Re: PyCon 2013 -- tentative title/abstract/outline -- feedback plz - v.2



On Sep 28, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

>I just vaguely remember that there were problems in some projects relying on
>__file__ (some times opportunistically with os.path.realpath) to deduce the
>path to other components of the project, which might had been symlinked
>elsewhere ;-) and that is what dh_python has addressed:

Ah, yes, don't do that. :)  Use the pkg_resources API if you need to locate
files within your package.

Cheers,
-Barry


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