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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Oct 11 17:19:00 CEST 2005

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 ''.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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