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Python in relocatable guix pack leads to wrong sys.path

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>
Cc: Rutherther <rutherther <at> protonmail.com>, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 73304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Subject: bug#73304: Python in relocatable guix pack leads to wrong sys.path
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:04:09 +0900

Hi Konrad,

Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The workaround looks smart (too smart for my tired brain tonight), but
>> to be honest I'd rather have Python handle the relative paths correctly,
>> or work around it in our sitecustomize.py script that runs early when
>
> That's indeed preferable, but according to my analysis not possible, as
> there are situations of faulty startup behavior in which out
> sitecustomize.py is not run at all.

I think I had read this from you before but I hadn't grasped how that's
possible/when it occurs.  Do yo have a link, or refresher?

> What we can envisage is a combination of
>  1. patching Python
>  2. using realpath rather than normpath in our sitecustomize.py

I hope we could get by with just 2.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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