Chris Withers wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm being bitten by this issue: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue1734860 > > I'm not sure I agree with Daniel's closing of it so thought I'd ask here... > > Am I right in thinking that the general idea is that "the current > working directory at the time of invoking a script or interpreter ends > up on the python path" or should I be thinking "the directory that a > script exists in should end up on the python path"? > > If the latter, then what happens in the case of just starting up an > interpreter? > > If neither, then how come when I have two .py files in a directory, I > can import one as a module from the other?
The details of the sys.path manipulation at program startup are documented here: http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#command-line The directory prepended to sys.path is based on the code executed by the command line. stdin, -c, -m or nothing specified: current directory Filesystem path pointing to script (source or compiled): directory containing script Filesystem path pointing to directory or zipfile: the named directory or zipfile Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
