[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

Andy Fiddaman added the comment: I've just found this while investigating a regression with my project following update to 3.9.5. It took me some time to discover that the new test failures were due to __file__ now being fully qualified when it wasn't before. As far as I can tell so far it

[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

James Saryerwinnie added the comment: > What's the actual scenario that this broke? I only noticed this because a project that I work on (https://github.com/aws/chalice/) started failing CI for seemingly unrelated changes. A specific test run is here:

[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

Steve Dower added the comment: It's almost certainly due to that change, though I'd be interested to see a more realistic repro. For the repro shown, you really ought to be clearing the importer cache as well when you remove a search path (as implied by chdir with a relative path on

[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: without inspecting the code: I wonder if this is related to the same change as https://bugs.python.org/issue44061 ? -- nosy: +gregory.p.smith ___ Python tracker

[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

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[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

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[issue44070] Regression with relative paths in sys.path in python 3.8.10

New submission from James Saryerwinnie : There was a change in behavior in Python 3.8.10 when using relative paths in sys.path. It appears that the paths are now converted to absolute paths that are cached and can cause import errors in some cases. Repro: $ cat repro.sh #!/bin/bash python