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Subject: Re: Understanding .pth in site-packages
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When I run: os.listdir('c:\Python27\lib\site-packages') I get the contents in order, so the folders come before .pth files (as nothing comes before something.) I would guess Python is using os.listdir. Why wouldn't it?