Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment:
> To make a potentially viable concrete proposal here, I think a reasonable
> first step would be to change the ".pth" file processing code in site.py to
> emit PendingDeprecationWarning for the 'if line.startswith(("import ",
> "import\t")):' branch.
PendingDeprecationWarning because you don’t think we can remove this
functionality in 3.9?
> In addition to helping to determine the scope of the compatibility break
> being discussed here, such a warning would also be usable as a debugging tool.
>
> I'd also suggest updating "python -m site" to list any pth files that it
> finds, and categorise them as simple sys.path additions (which are generally
> fine), and arbitrary code (which can be problematic).
Great idea, +1
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