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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
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@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ Here is a history of user visible changes to Mailman. -bounces and -request addresses in each virtual domain are now added to data/virtual-mailman (-owner was done in 2.1.24). (LP: #1831777) + - The paths.py module now extends sys.path with the result of + site.getsitepackages() if available. (LP: #1838866) + 2.1.29 (24-Jul-2018) Bug Fixes diff --git a/misc/paths.py.in b/misc/paths.py.in index 1491639b..e05875e3 100644 --- a/misc/paths.py.in +++ b/misc/paths.py.in @@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ distdir = os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'lib', 'python'+sys.version[:3], 'dist-packages') sys.path.append(distdir) +# Some distros may have the python library in a directory other than lib/ +# such as Lib/ or lib64/. Hopefully they will have hacked +# site.getsitepackages() to return the right thing. +try: + import site + sys.path.extend(site.getsitepackages()) + del site +except (ImportError, AttributeError): + pass + # In a normal interactive Python environment, the japanese.pth and korean.pth # files would be imported automatically. But because we inhibit the importing |