[issue43586] sys.path is weird in Windows 10.

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> on windows, they print sys.path[0] is python38.zip not "".

Isolated mode is probably enabled, i.e. `sys.flags.isolated == 1`. It's enabled by default for the embedded distribution [1], or if a "._pth" file exists beside and with the same base name as the executable or DLL (e.g.  "python._pth" or "python38._pth") [2].

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[1] https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#the-embeddable-package
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#finding-modules

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