Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I was under the impression that both the current directory *and* the > >python library directory were already, automatically, in sys.path, so > >I'm really surprised to see this. Am I doing something wrong, or is > >this simply the expected behavior (and if so, where is it documented)? > > IIRC (without bother to test), there has been some change in the > definition of "current directory" -- it used to be the actual current > directory of os.getcwd(), but since changed to the startup directory.
In 2.3 and later, at least (sorry, no 2.2 and earlier around to check), site.py makes every directory along sys.path an absolute path at Python startup. This _should_ probably be documented at <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-site.html>, but it doesn't appear to be clearly stated there (the page only speaks of site's job of "appending site specific paths", and not of the other jobs it also performs, such as normalizing sys.path by turning all paths into absolute ones and removing duplicates). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
