On Nov 18, 3:36 am, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: ... > It just seems mind-boggling to me that PYTHONPATH doesn't preempt > everything else.
I was surprised too, but this issue is widespread. Best explained here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/tahoe-lafs/+bug/821000/comments/0 Quote: " The crux of the problem is that the Python documentation says: "The PYTHONPATH variable can be set to a list of paths that will be added to the beginning of sys.path." http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path This is true with standard distutils, false with setuptools, false with distribute... " Phillip J. Eby (setuptools guy) was religious about "easy installed" packages over anything else to comment on this issue 3 years ago: " This behavior change is unacceptable, as it makes it impossible to ensure that an easy_install-ed package takes precedence over an existing, distutils-installed version of the same package in the same PYTHONPATH directory. Please note that that is the intended default behavior of easy_install: if you wish to override it, you should use --multi-version, and explicitly select the egg(s) to be added to sys.path instead. " (http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/issue53) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
