Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
The problem is that having '' as the first entry in sys.path currently means "do the import relative to the current directory". Unless we want to change the language semantics so we stick os.getcwd() at the front instead of '', then __file__ is still going to be relative sometimes.
"Changing the language semantics" is actually what I was thinking about :) Do some people actually rely on the fact that changing the current directory will also change the import path?
I've learned that no matter how insane our current semantics for something may be, someone, somewhere will be relying on them :) In this case, the current semantics aren't even all that insane. A bit odd maybe, but not insane. I think they're even documented, but I couldn't say exactly where without some digging. I think we also use the trick of checking for an empty string in sys.path[0] in a couple of places before deciding whether or not to remove it (I seem to recall applying a patch to pydoc along those lines so it worked properly with the -m switch). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------