[Python-Dev] PEP 273: Import Modules from Zip Archives (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:14:56 -0500

[James C. Ahlstrom]

The zip archive name is always inserted as the second item in sys.path. The first always seems to be ''.

Running p.py:

import sys print sys.path[0]

on Windows gives:

C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python p.py ''

C:\Code\python\PCbuild>cd ..

C:\Code\python>pcbuild\python pcbuild\p.py 'pcbuild'

C:\Code\python>pcbuild\python \code\python\pcbuild\p.py '\code\python\pcbuild'

C:\Code\python>cd pcbuild

C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python .\p.py '.'

C:\Code\python\PCbuild>move p.py ..\lib C:\CODE\PYTHON\PCBUILD\p.py => C:\CODE\PYTHON\lib\p.py [ok]

C:\Code\python\PCbuild>python ..\lib\p.py '..\lib'

C:\Code\python\PCbuild>

That is, the first entry is the path (relative or absolute!) to the directory in which the script being executed lives.