On Jun 2, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 6/2/05, Reinhold Birkenfeld <reinhold-birkenfeld- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While looking at bug #779191, I saw that sys.path's first element >> is '' in interactive sessions, but the current dir otherwise. Is this >> intentional? >> > > I've always liked it this way; using "" instead of "." means that if > you os.path.join() it with a script name you don't get a spurious "./" > prepended. > > I think that the "absolutizing" of sys.path entries is relatively new > (seems to have started in 2.3). > > Also note that it's not really the current directory but the directory > containing the script; that is definitely intentional.
The absolutizing of sys.path in site.py is misbehavior anyway.. it spits in the face of path hooks, for example <http://mail.python.org/ pipermail/python-dev/2005-April/052885.html>. I still haven't committed that patch, I haven't had a whole lot of Python-time lately with co-founding a new company, preparing to move, WWDC, etc... but nobody bothered to complain, so if someone wants to commit <http://python.org/sf/1174614> before I get a chance, feel free! -bob _______________________________________________ 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
