This reminds me of a discussion here a few days ago in which people were happily bashing java's classpath. I don't know anything about python, but my feeling at

This reminds me of a discussion here a few days ago in which people were happily bashing java's classpath. I don't know anything about python, but my feeling at their comparison of java and python was that something that is way too simple to use can't be at the same time easy to customize. In the light of this article classpaths sound a lot like what they really are: a working compromise everybody can live with.