[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/1/2015 6:22 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> It will also break scripts that rely on looking at the
> first element of sys.path to find the directory they
> are running from.

'' is not very informative ;-).
I suspect the full path added in the past, but it is not now.
import os; os.getcwd() works better

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Terry Jan Reedy