On 29.04.12 07:05, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 1:41 PM, PJ Eby<p...@telecommunity.com> wrote:
That's already the case. Actually, sys.path[0] is *always* the absolute
path of the script directory -- regardless of whether you invoked the script
by a relative path or an absolute one, and regardless of whether you're
importing 'site' -- at least on Linux and Cygwin and WIndows, for all Python
versions I've used regularly, and 3.2 besides.
"-c" and "-m" also insert the empty string as sys.path[0] in order to
find local files. They could just as easily insert the full cwd
explicitly though, and, in fact, they arguably should. (I say
arguably, because changing this *would* be a backwards incompatible
change - there's no such issue with requiring __file__ to be
absolute).
As a note: I tried to find out where and when the empty string actually
got inserted into sys.path. Not very easy, had to run the C debugger
to understand that:
It happens in sysmodule.c
PyMain
PySys_SetArgv(argc-_PyOS_optind, argv+_PyOS_optind);
that calls
PySys_SetArgvEx(int argc, char **argv, int updatepath)
and the logic weather to use the empty string or a full path etc.
is deeply hidden in a C function as a side effect. Brrrrrr!
It would be much cleaner and easier if that stuff would be ignored
today and called a Python implementation, instead.
Is that in the plans to get rid of C for such stuff? I hope so :-)
cheers -- Chris
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