pyinfo: Use sys.path instead of the site.getsitepackages procedure. #12530
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Fixes #5701.
(expand_site_packages, _parse_pth_file, _make_abspath): Remove procedures.
(compute_search_paths): Adjust accordingly.
I've applied this patch to the
python-mypy
in GNU Guix; which continued passing its test suite. This in turned enabled the python-pytest-enabler test suite to pass for the first time; previously it would fail due to mypy being unable to locate the stubs files, even they were installed.I believe this is because mypy would only look (by default) at the Python installation site-packages directory, which in non-file hierarchy standard distributions is bound to fail.
Using
sys.path
instead ofsite.getsitepackages
is more robust generally (it benefits from Python's site.py treatment) and avoids reinventing the wheel in mypy (such as parsing .pth files).