[Python-Dev] Re: .pth files in current or script directory

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 17 22:28:47 EDT 2004


Richard Cooper <anon at server15.ukservers.net>:

> When a module is imported, its import search path includes everything it
> does now PLUS the directory that is the top of the module's enclosing
> package structure.

I don't see how that changes anything, since in order to get
imported in the first place, the module's top-level package has
to already be on the module search path somehow.

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