On 10/11/05, Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Tim] > >> Well, that's in interactive mode, and I see sys.path[0] == "" on both > >> Windows and Linux then. I don't see "" in sys.path on either box in > >> batch mode, although I do see the absolutized path to the current > >> directory in sys.path in batch mode on Windows but not on Linux -- but > >> Mark Hammond says he doesn't see (any form of) the current directory > >> in sys.path in batch mode on Windows. > >> > >> It's a bit confusing ;-) > > [Guido] > > How did you test batch mode? > > I gave full code (it's brief) and screen-scrapes from Windows and > Linux yesterday: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057162.html > > By batch mode, I meant invoking > > path_to_python path_to_python_script.py > > from a shell prompt. > > > All: > > > > sys.path[0] is *not* defined to be the current directory. > > > > It is defined to be the directory of the script that was used to > > invoke python (sys.argv[0], typically). > > In my runs, sys.argv[0] was the path to the Python executable, not to > the script being run.
I tried your experiment but added 'print sys.argv[0]' and didn't see that. sys.argv[0] is the path to the script. > The directory of the script being run was > nevertheless in sys.path[0] on both Windows and Linux. On Windows, > but not on Linux, the _current_ directory (the directory I happened to > be in at the time I invoked Python) was also on sys.path; Mark Hammond > said it was not when he tried, but he didn't show exactly what he did > so I'm not sure what he saw. I see what you see. The first entry is the script's directory, the 2nd is a nonexistent zip file, the 3rd is the current directory, then the rest is standard library stuff. I suppose PC/getpathp.c puts it there, per your post quoted above? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com