[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: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
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