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Author	ncoghlan
Recipients	belopolsky, georg.brandl, ncoghlan
Date	2008-02-23.05:49:04
SpamBayes Score	0.0035062153
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1203745748.59.0.68584601973.issue1877@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The mutation of sys.path is deliberate - the use case is to allow the interpreter to execute a zipfile directly and have access to all of the Python modules and packages bundled along with __main__.py. Supporting execution of directories as well makes it much easier to test your application before bundling it that way (since you can test with the directory till it works, zip the directory, test with the zipfile, then distribute it). You can find more details on this feature in issue 1739468

The mutation of sys.path is deliberate - the use case is to allow the
interpreter to execute a zipfile directly and have access to all of the
Python modules and packages bundled along with __main__.py. Supporting
execution of directories as well makes it much easier to test your
application before bundling it that way (since you can test with the
directory till it works, zip the directory, test with the zipfile, then
distribute it).

You can find more details on this feature in issue 1739468

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-23 05:49:09	ncoghlan	set	spambayes_score: 0.00350622 -> 0.0035062153 recipients: + ncoghlan, georg.brandl, belopolsky
2008-02-23 05:49:08	ncoghlan	set	spambayes_score: 0.00350622 -> 0.00350622 messageid: <1203745748.59.0.68584601973.issue1877@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-23 05:49:07	ncoghlan	link	issue1877 messages
2008-02-23 05:49:06	ncoghlan	create