issue 9910
Add a Py_SetPath api to override magic path computations when starting up python.
diff --git a/Modules/getpath.c b/Modules/getpath.c
index c55b3d7..6f2e537 100644
--- a/Modules/getpath.c
+++ b/Modules/getpath.c
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@
* known use of sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix is for the ILU installation
* process to find the installed Python tree.
*
+ * An embedding application can use Py_SetPath() to override all of
+ * these authomatic path computations.
+ *
* NOTE: Windows MSVC builds use PC/getpathp.c instead!
*/
@@ -771,6 +774,23 @@
/* External interface */
+void
+Py_SetPath(const wchar_t *path)
+{
+ if (module_search_path != NULL) {
+ free(module_search_path);
+ module_search_path = NULL;
+ }
+ if (path != NULL) {
+ extern wchar_t *Py_GetProgramName(void);
+ wchar_t *prog = Py_GetProgramName();
+ wcsncpy(progpath, prog, MAXPATHLEN);
+ exec_prefix[0] = prefix[0] = L'\0';
+ module_search_path = malloc((wcslen(path) + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t));
+ if (module_search_path != NULL)
+ wcscpy(module_search_path, path);
+ }
+}
wchar_t *
Py_GetPath(void)