Re: [Pyobjc-dev] objc & sys.path munging

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 10:17 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Here's a snippet from objc.__init__.py:
>
>   # This is a hack, should probably patch python:
>   # - We want the resources directory to be on the python search-path
>   # - It must be at the start of the path
>   # - The CWD must not be on the path
>   if 1 :
>       b = lookup_class('NSBundle').mainBundle()
>       if b:
>           sys.path.insert(0, 
> '%s/Contents/Resources'%str(b.bundlePath()))
>       del b
>   del sys, __builtin__
>
> Questions:
> - "...should probably patch python", how?
> - why must it be at the start of the path?
> - why must the CWD not be on the path?

These were notes to myself, but I never followed up on it... The last 
item is actually wrong.

When you run a python script the interpreter will add the directory 
containing the script at the start of sys.path. I noticed that this 
doesn't work out correctly with the python from buildtools.py (*) and 
added this as a workaround.

This code should be removed and we should add the correct path to 
sys.path in another way (either through PYTHONPATH (non-embedded 
python) or by changing sys.path directly (embedded python)).

Ronald

(*) Sorry Jack, I don't rembember what went wrong. I may well be that I 
misunderstood some issues.