Re: Down with PYTHONPATH!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Konrad,

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Nowadays, in the wider world (beyond Guix), PYTHONPATH is mainly a
> newbie trap. Experienced pythonistas have abandoned it for virtual
> environments. So if it can be turned into a mechanism for supporting
> Guix environments with a name change, I doubt anyone would complain
> about standard PYTHONPATH being gone.

How does virtualenv work, if not by setting PYTHONPATH?

Setting up an environment all about augmenting the search path, so I
naively thought that virtualenv sets PYTHONPATH or the corresponding
Python variable.

Thanks,
Ludo’.