Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:51:06 -0400 From: Tim Peters Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion To: Martin v. L?wis Cc: python-dev@python.org Message-ID: <1f7befae0510110651o504958det5d2409b3f724070e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

[Tim Peters]

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never before this year -- maybe sys.path _used_ to contain the current directory on Linux?).

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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It's been a long time since this was the case on Unix of any variety; I *think* this changed to the current state back before 2.0.

[Martin v. L?wis]

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Please check again:

[GCC 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import sys sys.path ['', '/usr/lib/python23.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.3', '/usr/lib/python2.3/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/site-python']

We still have the empty string in sys.path, and it still denotes the current directory.

Well, that's in interactive mode, and I see sys.path[0] == "" on both Windows and Linux then. I don't see "" in sys.path on either box in batch mode, although I do see the absolutized path to the current directory in sys.path in batch mode on Windows but not on Linux -- but Mark Hammond says he doesn't see (any form of) the current directory in sys.path in batch mode on Windows.

It's a bit confusing ;-)

Been bit by this in the past. On windows, it's a relative path in interactive mode and absolute path in non-interactive mode.