[Tim] >> 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 ;-)
[Guido] > How did you test batch mode? I gave full code (it's brief) and screen-scrapes from Windows and Linux yesterday: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057162.html By batch mode, I meant invoking path_to_python path_to_python_script.py from a shell prompt. > 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). In my runs, sys.argv[0] was the path to the Python executable, not to the script being run. The directory of the script being run was nevertheless in sys.path[0] on both Windows and Linux. On Windows, but not on Linux, the _current_ directory (the directory I happened to be in at the time I invoked Python) was also on sys.path; Mark Hammond said it was not when he tried, but he didn't show exactly what he did so I'm not sure what he saw. > If there is no script, or it is being read from stdin, the default is ''. I believe everyone sees that. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com