[Python-Dev] package imports, sys.path and os.chdir()

[Christian Tismer]

On 27.04.12 02:39, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Christian Tismer<tismer at stackless.com>  wrote:
>> No big deal and easy to work around, I just would like to understand why.
> I don't like it either and want to change it, but I'm also not going
> to mess with it until the importlib bootstrapping is fully integrated
> and stable.
>
> For the moment, there's a workaround in runpy to ensure at least
> __main__.__file__ is always absolute (even when using the -m switch).
> Longer term, I'd like to see __file__ and __path__ entries to be
> guaranteed to be *always* absolutely, even when they're imported
> relative to the current working directory.
>

Is there a recommendable way to fix this? I would like to tell people
what to do to make imports reliable. Either I put something into
the toplevel __init__ code, or I hack something into .pth or sitecustomize,
and then forget about this.

But I fear hacking __init__ is the only safe way that works without
a special python setup, which makes the whole reasoning rather
useless, because I can _not_ forget about this.... waah ;-)

cheers - chris

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