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Subject: 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.