sys.path[0] in IDLE

[Gabriel Genellina]

At 26/12/2003 22:25, you wrote:

>Am I reading this correctly?
>
>http://python.org/doc/current/lib/module-sys.html
>
>"""
>As initialized upon program startup, the first item of this list,
>path[0], is the directory containing the script that was used to
>invoke the Python interpreter.
>"""
>
>
>So, sys.path[0] should be the directory that my script is in?
>
>Even if running the script from IDLE?
>
>Has anyone else had problems with this? Especially on windows?

(Read the remaining of the paragraph too)
When using IDLE, the "script" is really idle.py. If you start IDLE with 
another script as an argument, its dir is prepended in sys.path


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL