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Author	pjenvey
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Date	2008年07月16日.21:10:51
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get_python_lib supports an optional prefix argument: If 'prefix' is supplied, use it instead of sys.prefix or sys.exec_prefix -- i.e., ignore 'plat_specific'. However the NT and OS2 platforms don't use the prefix argument when specified. This problem was brought up a while ago here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2002-November/003099.html Andrew (the OS2 maintainer) claimed in the thread that fixing this would break OS2, but I don't see how. All callers of get_python_lib in the stdlib don't specify a prefix anyway. Anyone calling it with a prefix and expecting it not to be used is broken.

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get_python_lib supports an optional prefix argument:
 If 'prefix' is supplied, use it instead of sys.prefix or
 sys.exec_prefix -- i.e., ignore 'plat_specific'.
However the NT and OS2 platforms don't use the prefix argument when 
specified.
This problem was brought up a while ago here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2002-November/003099.html
Andrew (the OS2 maintainer) claimed in the thread that fixing this would 
break OS2, but I don't see how. All callers of get_python_lib in the 
stdlib don't specify a prefix anyway. Anyone calling it with a prefix 
and expecting it not to be used is broken.

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2008年07月16日 21:10:54	pjenvey	set	spambayes_score: 0.0198925 -> 0.019892458 recipients: + pjenvey
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