Why doesn't Python remember the initial directory?

[alex23]

On Monday, 20 August 2012 13:38:03 UTC+10, Steven D'Aprano  wrote:
> Not so much. More of, "yes, that's a bug, but it's not an important bug. 
> If you have a patch for fixing it, we'll consider it, but if you don't, 
> we've got about two thousand more important bugs and features to get 
> through first."

I'm not really convinced it's a bug, though. The issue only happens if the module is the main application, so wrapping this behind a launcher will resolve the issue. Given that you can manually provide the filepath to inspect, I'd say it's a known limitation with a workaround.