[issue33053] Running a module with `-m` will add empty directory to sys.path

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[issue33053] Running a module with `-m` will add empty directory to sys.path

Jakub Wilk added the comment: FWIW, this behavior is documented: https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-m "As with the -c option, the current directory will be added to the start of sys.path." With the -c option, at least you could easily remove the sys.path element yourself:

[issue33053] Running a module with `-m` will add empty directory to sys.path

New submission from Antti Haapala : I think this is a really stupid security bug. Running a module with `-mmodule` seems to add '' as a path in sys.path, and in front. This is doubly wrong, because '' will stand for whatever the current working directory might happen to be at the time of the *