On 6/18/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You have a point about sys.path[0] being special. It could be the > >current directory instead of the package directory. > > Mightn't that be a security risk, in that it introduces an import hole for > secure scripts run with -m? Not that I know of any such scripts existing > as yet...
That sounds like an invented use case if I ever heard of one. YAGNI, please! > If it's not the package directory, perhaps it could be a copy of whatever > sys.path entry the package was found under - that wouldn't do anything but > make "nearby" imports faster. But it could theoretically affect search order for other modules. I still see nothing wrong with "". After all that's also the default if you run a script using python <path/to/file.py . -- --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
