Hi! On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Christian Heimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > PEP 370 [1] was my first PEP that got accepted. I created it exactly one > decade and two days ago for Python 2.6 and 3.0. Back then we didn't have > virtual environment support in Python. Ian Bicking had just started to > create the virtualenv project a couple of months earlier. > > Fast forward 10 years... > > Nowadays Python has venv in the standard library. The user-specific > site-packages directory is no longer that useful.
Can I disagree? > I would even say it's > causing more trouble than it's worth. For example it's common for system > script to use "#!/usr/bin/python3" shebang without -s or -I option. System scripts are run under user root which seldom has user-specific site-packages so why worry? > I propose to deprecate the feature and remove it in Python 4.0. > > Regards, > Christian > > [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ [email protected] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com