[Python-Dev] PythonCore\CurrentVersion (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 15:51:06 CEST 2005

[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 ;-)

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