New submission from Thierry Parmentelat <thierry.parmente...@inria.fr>:
Hi; this is my first entry in this repo
I ran today into a rather frustrating experience, that I'd to avoid it for
others as far as possible
In a nutshell I had a sphinx stub that read:
import sys
sys.path.append("..")
<snip>
import mymodule
and because I was switching from os.path to pathlib.Path, I rather stupidly
changed it into this
import sys
sys.path.append(Path("..").resolve())
<snip>
import mymodule
---
When trying to run this new code, the message I got was ModuleNotFoundError
So I tried to troubleshoot the situation, and inserted something like
for x in sys.path:
print(x)
and so the proper path showed up, and that's the point where I started banging
my head against the screen
Granted, I was doing too many changes at the same time, and it's entirely my
fault if it took me ages really to figure it out eventually.
---
Still, my proposal would be to
*) either accept Path instances in sys.path, or
*) somehow send a warning message stating that the Path instance is totally
ignored; at least, I haven't found the corresponding piece of code yet, but as
far as I am concerned it's truly as if this Path instance had been completely
ignored when executing the import statement
*) or at the very least add a mention about this possible issue in the import
documentation
I understand it was a stupid mistake, but with Path becoming THE right way to
deal with paths, I think it is safe to predict that I won't be the only one
making it.
As I said I am a complete newbie with cpython's codebase and devel practices,
so I'll warmly welcome all inputs on this one.
thanks
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 329864
nosy: thierry.parmentelat
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow Path instances in sys.path ?
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8
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