PTH files may be deprecated
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I don't know if you have seen this python issue to deprecate PTH files.
https://bugs.python.org/issue33944
One of my projects, vext also uses PTH files, but I haven't had time to weigh in on the issue above.
I feel, like we both our libraries have a legitimate use-case, so hope this doesn't disappear without some replacement for running code at startup.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I've responded to the issue.
It really sounds like someone had a bad time with some .PTH related code and wanted to kill the whole thing off without really thinking much about it.
There's a shockingly low amount of "let's fix it instead of kill it", which I don't like to see coming from any development community - let alone Python's.
Closing for now as there's nothing much I can do beyond this point. Thank you again for letting me know!
Yeah, just a heads up really.
Similarly, there seems to be a the same mentality with pip ... I understand they want to make everything more simple (separate installation from configuration apparently), but I find it convenient being able to install + configure from one place.
/rant over.
Maybe in the longer term having a pep for import hooks seperate from pth files would be an idea, along much like better_exceptions these could be gated behind environment variables or some sort of config in the virtualenv itself.