A few days ago I tried the change: ``self.path = path or _os.cwd()``, but the problem didn't seem to resolve itself.  

``./python -c "import blah; print(blah.__file__)`` still returned a relative path on my system. The tie between FileFinder and the __file__ attribute isn't yet obvious to me.  

I'm traveling for the next few days but I'll probably give it a second look when I get some free time.