[Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/11/05, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;-)

How did you test batch mode?

All:

sys.path[0] is *not* defined to be the current directory.

It is defined to be the directory of the script that was used to
invoke python (sys.argv[0], typically). If there is no script, or it
is being read from stdin, the default is ''.

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