On 15 January 2015 at 07:35, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > > But as Guido pointed out, we _like_ it being difficult to do because we > don't want this kind of substitution happening as code ends up depending on > bugs and quirks that you may fix. > > Not all of us, I hate the default order of sys.path. It's mostly an opinion that arises from debugging other people's problems after they've managed to import the wrong thing without realising it (cf. the "don't use 'socket.py' as the name of your script for learning about how TCP sockets work" problem). We're aware that annoys power users, but they're far better equipped to handle the problem than if we inverted the situation. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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