[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

ِAbdulrahman ِShawa added the comment: hello guys I am facing problem with my sqlite3 database when i make changes it saves the changes for almost 13 hours and then retakes back all the changes that i made, i am using two threads in my code and i am not committing the data but i set the

[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

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[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

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[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

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[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

New submission from Johannes Buchner buchner.johan...@gmx.at: If I have a script foo/bar.py import baz and create a symlink to it, called barhere.py ln -s foo/bar.py barhere.py when I run it, it behaves unexpectedly, specifically it behaves differently than if I had copied it here. It

[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: The content of a symbolic symlink is a symbolic reference to another location in the file system. If you had used a hard link it would certainly work as you expected. The behavior with respect to symbolic links ought to be documented

[issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment: Specifically, we end up calling os.realpath() (or the C level equivalent) when initialising __main__.__file__ and sys.path[0]. Agreed this behaviour should be documented (and tested!) explicitly. -- assignee: - docs@python