[issue1074015] current directory in sys.path handles symlinks badly

Marko Schuetz added the comment: I think this behavior is causing a related problem: Assume I have directories currentWorkspace and branchRepository. On branchRepository I have files main.py and module.py. main.py imports module.py. In currentWorkspace main.py links to the repository version

[issue1074015] current directory in sys.path handles symlinks badly

Brett Cannon added the comment: So the joe directory is put on sys.path instead of lib because joe.py resolves to joe/joe.py. I think that is correct semantics as you may symlink that file into your bin directory but the original file has dependencies in that location. Plus changing it now would

[issue1074015] current directory in sys.path handles symlinks badly

Daniel Diniz added the comment: Still happens in trunk. -- nosy: +ajaksu2 stage: -> test needed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-

[issue1074015] current directory in sys.path handles symlinks badly

Changes by Daniel Diniz : -- assignee: -> brett.cannon components: +Interpreter Core -None nosy: +brett.cannon ___ Python tracker ___ _