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Author	amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, bpb
Date	2008-02-07.13:21:04
SpamBayes Score	0.0043077148
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Message-id	<1202390465.47.0.129095663679.issue2029@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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There is a difference between "-m" and starting the module directly: - when running a module, its directory is inserted in front of sys.path. - with "-m", the empty string '' is inserted in front of sys.path. The problem with pydoc.py is that there is specific code that modifies sys.path, and will remove the standard lib from sys.path! Look for this comment: # Scripts don't get the current directory in their path by default. We could delete three lines there and avoid to remove dirname(sys.argv[0]) from the path.

There is a difference between "-m" and starting the module directly:
- when running a module, its directory is inserted in front of sys.path.
- with "-m", the empty string '' is inserted in front of sys.path.

The problem with pydoc.py is that there is specific code that modifies
sys.path, and will remove the standard lib from sys.path!
Look for this comment:
   # Scripts don't get the current directory in their path by default.
We could delete three lines there and avoid to remove
dirname(sys.argv[0]) from the path.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-07 13:21:05	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	spambayes_score: 0.00430771 -> 0.0043077148 recipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, bpb
2008-02-07 13:21:05	amaury.forgeotdarc	set	spambayes_score: 0.00430771 -> 0.00430771 messageid: <1202390465.47.0.129095663679.issue2029@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-07 13:21:04	amaury.forgeotdarc	link	issue2029 messages
2008-02-07 13:21:04	amaury.forgeotdarc	create