[Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

[Tim Peters]

[Tim Peters]
>>> never before this year -- maybe sys.path _used_ to contain the current
>>> directory on Linux?).

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]
>> 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. Löwis]
> 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.
>  >>> 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 ;-)