[New-bugs-announce] [issue14547] Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

[Johannes Buchner]

New submission from Johannes Buchner <buchner.johannes at 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 prefers to import baz from foo/baz, not from the current folder.

Apparently Python (2.7.2-r3) handles symlinks differently than just looking at the content (everything is a file philosophy in UNIX).

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messages: 158039
nosy: j13r
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python symlink to script behaves unexpectedly

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