Guido van Rossum wrote: > What we do instead, is code in site.py that walks over the elements of > sys.path and turns them into absolute paths. However this code runs > before '' is inserted in the front of sys.path, so that the initial > value of sys.path is ''. > > You may want to print the value of sys.path at various points to see > for yourself.
I ran into the issue on Debian or Ubuntu (can't remember) several years ago. The post-install script of the Python package did something like "cd /usr/lib/pythonX.Y && ./compileall.py", so all pyc files were created relative to the library root of Python. The __file__ attribute of all pre-compiled Python files were relative, too. Christian _______________________________________________ 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
