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    bitkeeper revision 1.1159.258.97 (42603992S3sF-t0yBth7NEBevozVOg) · fc56b123
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    [PATCH] Make non-native python path handling a
    > > Although I don't really agree with the installing of the
    > > python bits to the non-native paths, I can see where it's
    > > useful as long as the module ABI doesn't change if you're
    > > trying to distribute binary tarballs.  But with the current
    > > handling it adds module lookup costs for the native path case
    > > (which would be the norm) as well as prevents using
    > > PYTHONPATH to look to a different location for the modules.
    > >
    > > The attached patch changes things so that at first, the xen
    > > module is attempted to be imported from the stock paths.  If
    > > we get an ImportError exception, then it adds /usr/lib/python
    > > to the end of the python path and imports again.
    >
    > Do you prefer this to just unconditionally addding /usr/lib/python to
    > the end of the path rather than the front?
    
    Slightly, but just because having /usr/lib/python in my sys.path is
    ugly :-)  I can look over it, though... patch doing that attached
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
    
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