Hi there, I have got an issue with pythons way of handling its "path" for modules. A lot of my programs that uses the math module from python fails because it loads the math.py from my current path which often is ~/ (Where I have local file called math.py with some test stuff) (This isn't a "math" specific problem.) A way to reproduce this bug: 1) cd ~ 2) echo "print \"errrrrr\"" > ~/math.py 3) create a python script and say "import math" - it will then include the math.py in your homedir instead of the "real" one. Regards Alexander PS: (emerge --info) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.1_rc1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant-core" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BROWSER="firefox" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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This is not gentoo-specific. I do not think it is a bug either since the python tutorial describes this as how modules are located (see http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html#SECTION008110000000000000000). So we are not going to change this in gentoo, since we would then have a python that behaves pretty drastically different from all other pythons. I guess you could ask about this upstream, although I doubt they will change it.
<@Halcy0n> If he wants to have that behaviour in his program, just tell him to remove '' from the front of os.path and append it at the end. (that's something like "import sys; sys.path.remove(''); sys.path.append('')")
