[issue13728] Description of -m and -c cli options wrong?

2012-01-13 Thread Sandro Tosi 

Sandro Tosi sandro.t...@gmail.com added the comment:

Ah indeed, I could have looked at sys.path doc myself after all.. sorry for the 
noise.

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[issue13728] Description of -m and -c cli options wrong?

2012-01-07 Thread Sandro Tosi 

New submission from Sandro Tosi sandro.t...@gmail.com:

Hi,
looking at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-December/006672.html I 
tried to replicate what the user said, and *it seems* that -c and -m doesn't 
add the current directory to the start of sys.path:

$ echo -e import sys\nprint (sys.path)  dummy.py ; ./python -mdummy
['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/plat-linux2', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-tk', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-old', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug', 
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

and 

$ ./python -c import dummy
['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/plat-linux2', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-tk', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-old', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug', 
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

the same sys.path as from the interactive shell:

$ ./python 
Python 2.7.2+ (2.7:f0666e56a552, Jan  7 2012, 16:31:06) 
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
 import sys
[38650 refs]
 sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/plat-linux2', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-tk', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-old', 
'/home/morph/cpython/py27/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug', 
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
[38657 refs]

So, is http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#interface-options correct in 
saying he current directory will be added to the start of sys.path (allowing 
modules in that directory to be imported as top level modules).? (and so forth 
for -m option?) am I confused?

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title: Description of -m and -c cli options wrong?
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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[issue13728] Description of -m and -c cli options wrong?

2012-01-07 Thread Eric Snow 

Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com added the comment:

see http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.path

As initialized upon program startup, the first item of this list, path[0], is 
the directory containing the script that was used to invoke the Python 
interpreter. If the script directory is not available (e.g. if the interpreter 
is invoked interactively or if the script is read from standard input), path[0] 
is the empty string, which directs Python to search modules in the current 
directory first.

So the empty string here is the current working directory (at the time the 
script is run?).

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