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Author sandro.tosi
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Date 2012-01-07.15:36:52
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Hi,
looking at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-December/006672.html I tried to replicate what the user said, and *it seems* that -c and -m doesn't add the current directory to the start of sys.path:

$ echo -e "import sys\nprint (sys.path)" > dummy.py ; ./python -mdummy
['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/plat-linux2', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-tk', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-old', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

and 

$ ./python -c "import dummy"
['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/plat-linux2', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-tk', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-old', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']

the same sys.path as from the interactive shell:

$ ./python 
Python 2.7.2+ (2.7:f0666e56a552, Jan  7 2012, 16:31:06) 
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
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>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python27.zip', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/plat-linux2', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-tk', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/Lib/lib-old', '/home/morph/cpython/py27/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
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So, is http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html#interface-options correct in saying "he current directory will be added to the start of sys.path (allowing modules in that directory to be imported as top level modules)."? (and so forth for -m option?) am I confused?
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