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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:49:31 -0400
Subject: Re: python package confusion
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I don't know about a bad idea or not, but it is certainly redundant,
> because Python automatically adds '' (equivalent to '.') to the very
> start of the search path.

No, it only does that if Python is reading commands from stdin, or if
Python was run with the -c option, or maybe some other situations. It
doesn't do it if you just run a program, as in "python myfile.py".

-- Devin