Good point! Does it follow symlinks before setting __file__? Because in the context of imports it does: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#the-mod

Good point! Does it follow symlinks before setting __file__? Because in the context of imports it does: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-s... > Note: On file systems which support symlinks, the directory containing the input script is calculated after the symlink is followed. In other words the directory containing the symlink is not added to the module search path.