Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2006-03-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters wrote: I believe I documented it many moons ago. I don't think CurrentVersion was ever implemented (or possibly was for a very short time before being removed). The registered modules concept was misguided and AFAIK is not used by anyone - IMO it should be deprecated (if not just

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 18:42, Tim Peters wrote: never before this year -- maybe sys.path _used_ to contain the current directory on Linux?). It's been a long time since this was the case on Unix of any variety; I *think* this changed to the current state

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-11 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim Peters] never before this year -- maybe sys.path _used_ to contain the current directory on Linux?). [Fred L. Drake, Jr.] It's been a long time since this was the case on Unix of any variety; I *think* this changed to the current state back before 2.0. [Martin v. Löwis] Please check

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-11 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 10/11/05, Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-11 Thread Tim Peters
[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

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-11 Thread Guido van Rossum
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

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-11 Thread Tim Peters
[Guido] I tried your experiment but added 'print sys.argv[0]' and didn't see that. sys.argv[0] is the path to the script. My mistake! You're right, sys.argv[0] is the path to the script for me too. [Tim] The directory of the script being run was nevertheless in sys.path[0] on both Windows

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-10 Thread Tim Peters
[Martin v. Löwis] What happened to the CurrentVersion registry entry documented at http://www.python.org/windows/python/registry.html AFAICT, even the python15.wse file did not fill a value in this entry (perhaps I'm misinterpreting the wse file, though). So was this ever used? Why is it

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-10 Thread Mark Hammond
Suppose we run script.py while playground/ is the current directory. I'm using 2.4.2 here, but doubt it matters much. No Python-related envars are set. Windows (and the PIL and pywin32 extensions are installed here): C:\playground\python24\python.exe someother\script.py

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-10 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
On Monday 10 October 2005 18:42, Tim Peters wrote: never before this year -- maybe sys.path _used_ to contain the current directory on Linux?). It's been a long time since this was the case on Unix of any variety; I *think* this changed to the current state back before 2.0. -Fred --

Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-09 Thread Mark Hammond
What happened to the CurrentVersion registry entry documented at http://www.python.org/windows/python/registry.html AFAICT, even the python15.wse file did not fill a value in this entry (perhaps I'm misinterpreting the wse file, though). So was this ever used? Why is it documented, and who

[Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

2005-10-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
What happened to the CurrentVersion registry entry documented at http://www.python.org/windows/python/registry.html AFAICT, even the python15.wse file did not fill a value in this entry (perhaps I'm misinterpreting the wse file, though). So was this ever used? Why is it documented, and who