On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:01 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> wrote:
Fixing this thing will make my happy (or very sad if you'd like this).
Problem is described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6416333/239247 Summary: 1. chdir() 2. dirname(__file__) 3. FAIL
Proposal: from __future__ import abs__file__
Anatoly, this subject was already discussed on this list, just three months ago, in a thread you started! [1]_ To quote one of Nick Coglahan's replies [2]_:
Note that any remaining occurrences of non-absolute values in __file__ are generally considered bugs in the import system. However, we tend not to fix them in maintenance releases, since converting relative paths to absolute paths runs a risk of breaking user code.
We're definitely *not* going to further pollute the module namespace with values that can be trivially and reliably derived from existing values.
- Tal .. [1]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-September/023469.html .. [2]: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2013-September/023486.html