[Bug 197219] Re: /usr/local/lib/python/sitecustomize.py broken due to overriding sitecustomize in /etc

[jtniehof]

Explicitly setting PYTHONPATH to /usr/local/lib/site-python does the
trick OMM (16.04). Whether it's best to then copy-paste
/etc/sitecustomize.py into the local one, get into imp/importlib
machinery, or decide one doesn't care about apport, is left as an
exercise to the reader.

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Title:
  /usr/local/lib/python/sitecustomize.py broken due to overriding
  sitecustomize in /etc

Status in diveintopython package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in python2.5 package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in python2.6 package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  sitecustomize.py files have been added to /etc/python2.5/ nad
  /usr/lib/python2.5/ in hardy, which breaks the use of /usr/local/lib
  /site-python/sitecustomize.py, silently causing it to not be imported.

  My impression has always been that sitecustomize.py is to be reserved
  for the user (i.e., it's the python equivilent of debian's
  /usr/local/, thou shalt not touch it).

  site.py already allows for distribution specific additions; if they
  are to be placed outside site.py, then they should be placed in a
  third file such that the import of sitecustomize.py still proceeds as
  expected by the user.

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