Re: new.py and having '.' in PYTHONPATH

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 02/23/2015 01:00 PM, Tobiah wrote:
>
>> Anyway, it raises the question as to whether having '.' in the
>> PYTHONPATH is at all a sane thing to do.
>
> The current directory is added to sys.path /only/ for the interactive interpreter.

When executing a file, the directory containing the file is added to
sys.path instead, which amounts to the same thing if the file that
you're executing is in your current working directory.

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new.py and having '.' in PYTHONPATH Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2015-02-23 13:00 -0800
  Re: new.py and having '.' in PYTHONPATH sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-02-23 14:07 -0800
  Re: new.py and having '.' in PYTHONPATH Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-02-23 14:14 -0800
  Re: new.py and having '.' in PYTHONPATH Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-23 15:29 -0700

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