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Re: -nspkg.pth and .pth files - should we get rid of them?



On Jul 20, 2015, at 01:12 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:

>Is that a serious question?  Why should debian-python, for no good
>reason, break things that work just fine?

Because it doesn't really work well when you are supporting both Python 2 and
Python 3.  For example, if you have the 'foo' namespace with submodules 'bar'
and 'baz', you can't write a foo/__init__.py that supports old-style
namespaces for Python 2 and PEP 420 style namespaces for Python 3 because in
the latter *you can't have an __init__.py at all*.

+1 also for getting rid of .pth files as much as is possible.

Cheers,
-Barry


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