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Work on MODPYTHON-63 stopped by Graham Dumpleton

> Handle wildcard in Directory to sys.path transfer
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: MODPYTHON-63
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-63
>      Project: mod_python
>         Type: Improvement

>   Components: core
>     Versions: 3.1.3
>  Environment: gentoo Linux 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 apache-2.0.54-r8 mod_python-3.
1.3-r1
>     Reporter: Kevin Quick
>     Assignee: Graham Dumpleton
>     Priority: Minor
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>
> Below is a patch that does two things:
> 1) On module import failures, logfile contains additional information show
ing
>    system paths as well as module name.
> 2) Support of Python*Handler found in a wildcard-based directory.  For exa
mple,
> <IfModule mod_python.c>
>     <Directory /home/*/public_html/python>
>         AddHandler mod_python .py
>         PythonHandler helloworld
>         PythonDebug on
>     </Directory>
> </IfModule>
> which mirrors a corresponding PERL setting and would allow the user to
> place a mod_python handler in their $HOME/public_html/python directory.
> In the current code, the wildcard is not translated, the sys.path update
> will be invalid, and the user's module will not be accessible.  The attach
ed
> patch provides a fix for this.
> N.B. There are obvious security issues in using this type of configuration
,
> but this is very useful for dev environments, and security would implement
ed
> via explicit alternatives anyhow.
> Index: apache.py
>  ========================================
===========================
> RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-python/lib/python/mod_python/apache.py,v
> retrieving revision 1.83
> diff -r1.83 apache.py
> 33a34,40 
> 170,171c177
> <                 if filter.dir and (filter.dir not in sys.path):
> <                     sys.path[:0] = [filter.dir]
> --- 
> 280,282c286
> <                     dir = hlist.directory
> <                     if dir and (dir not in sys.path):
> <                         sys.path[:0] = [dir]
> --- 
> 454c458,462
> <             f, p, d = imp.find_module(parts[i], path)
> --- 

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