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Actually I don't believe that would happen. I think the relative PYTHONPATH gets expanded at startup and becomes an absolute path. Subsequent changes to the wor

by ehremo 11y ago

Actually I don't believe that would happen. I think the relative PYTHONPATH gets expanded at startup and becomes an absolute path. Subsequent changes to the working directory wouldn't affect it.

pyre 11y ago
That seems correct: /tmp $ PYTHONPATH='./test' /usr/bin/python -c 'import sys; print sys.path[:3]' ['', '/private/tmp/test', '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip']
- JoshTriplett 11y ago
  Good to know, thanks. It's still odd for software to only work when launched from a specific directory, but not necessarily a critical security vulnerability then.