[New-bugs-announce] [issue36514] -m switch revisited

[Colin Dick]

New submission from Colin Dick <colindnz at gmail.com>:

-m switch revisited - see issue 27487
Win 10 64bit
python 3.6.3 & 3.7.3

initially running code using py 3.6.3 with this command
python -m vixsd.py
produced
C:\Python36\python.exe: Error while finding module specification for 'vixsd.py' (AttributeError: module 'vixsd' has no attribute '__path__')

updated python from 3.6.3 to 3.7.3

searched & read web
retried the 4 options with & without "-m" & ".py"
results reproduced below

c:\shared\python\vmw>python vixsd
python: can't open file 'vixsd': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

c:\shared\python\vmw>python vixsd.py
A

c:\shared\python\vmw>python -m vixsd
A

c:\shared\python\vmw>python -m vixsd.py
A
C:\Python3\python.exe: Error while finding module specification for 'vixsd.py' (ModuleNotFoundError: __path__ attribute not found on 'vixsd' while trying to find 'vixsd.py')

while this was initially produced thru my ignorance,
handling all 4 options still does not work correctly
appears to have been a problem at least since
issue 27487

cheers team, keep up the great work
ColinDNZ

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messages: 339374
nosy: Colin Dick
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: -m switch revisited
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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