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[Python-Dev] .pth files should never contain python

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Paul Moore wrote:
> 2009/5/9 Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk>:
>> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>>> I thought .pth files just had python in them?
>>> Not at all - they never did. They have paths in them.
>> I've certainly seen them with python in, and that's what I hate about
>> them...
> 
> AIUI, there was a small special case that lines starting with "import"
> are executed (see the source of site.py for details). This exception
> has been exploited (some would say "abused", but I'm trying to be
> unbiased here) by setuptools, at least, to do path manipulations and
> such.

Abused is definitely the right word, I suppose it's too late to correct 
this bug?

How about for Python 3?

cheers,

Chris

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