where is the '__path__' comes from
<p>i can't find who defined  the <code>'__path__'</code>,why <code>'__path__'</code> can be use.</p>

<pre><code>import os
import sys
import warnings 
import ConfigParser # ConfigParser is not a virtualenv module, so we can use it to find the stdlib

dirname = os.path.dirname

distutils_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(ConfigParser.__file__), 'distutils')
if os.path.normpath(distutils_path) == os.path.dirname(os.path.normpath(__file__)):
    warnings.warn(
        "The virtualenv distutils package at %s appears to be in the same location as the system distutils?")
else:
    __path__.insert(0, distutils_path)#who defined me.???
    exec open(os.path.join(distutils_path, '__init__.py')).read()
</code></pre>
