When is a module imported from the standard library?

[Dinu Gherman]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 05:34:15 -0700, "Emile van Sebille"
<emile at fenx.com> wrote:

>Wouldn't the shortest entry in sys.path ending in lib give this to you?  If
>you're concerned that the path may have been tweaked maybe:
>
> o = os.popen('python -c "import sys;print sys.path"').read()

Well, there is no standard mandating it has to end in 'lib'.
On a Unix installation I could have '...lib/python2.1/' say...

Dinu

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