[Python-Dev] Excluding the current path from module search path?

[P.J. Eby]

At 04:59 PM 8/25/2009 +0100, Chris Withers wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm being bitten by this issue:
>
>http://bugs.python.org/issue1734860
>
>I'm not sure I agree with Daniel's closing of it so thought I'd ask here...
>
>Am I right in thinking that the general idea is that "the current 
>working directory at the time of invoking a script or interpreter 
>ends up on the python path" or should I be thinking "the directory 
>that a script exists in should end up on the python path"?
>
>If the latter, then what happens in the case of just starting up an 
>interpreter?

It's the latter.  In the case where there is no script, then the 
current directory is considered to be the directory of the script.