Avoid modifying path placeholders created by editable installs #1030
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The setuptools implementation of editable installs will insert a placeholder entry into sys.path as part of its magic to register its custom import mechanism.
These are not real filesystem paths and as such should not be rewritten to absolute paths.
This is a proposed fix for #1028 .
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I couldn't figure out how to test this specific behavior, but happy to add one given guidance on how to modify
sys.path
in the test environment.Added.