Ubuntu vs sitecustomize.py

Sometimes it is almost like the Ubuntu developers go out of their way to annoy the rest of the world, this time (for ancient values of “this time”) the Python package-maintainer decided to add a sitecustomize module to the Python standard library. This is not what sitecustomize is for, sitecustomize is for “performing arbitrary site-specific customizations”.

This is pretty annoying, when you want to use sitecustomize for its intended purpose, so puppet to the rescue:

file { ['/usr/lib/python2.7/sitecustomize.py',
        '/usr/lib/python2.7/sitecustomize.pyc',
        '/usr/lib/python2.7/sitecustomize.pyo']:
    ensure => removed,
}