Re: ipython3 may execute code from the current working directory

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk () jwilk net>]

* Mats Wichmann <mats () wichmann us>, 2021-07-23, 14:39:
> > https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/7.25.0/IPython/core/shellapp.py#L219
>
> normally (cpython), an empty string in sys.path doesn't mean "current 
> directory", it means "script directory", the directory the script 
> you're running is found in [1].

No, empty string in sys.path always means cwd.

sys.path[0] is the script directory (if available), but that's a 
non-empty string.

But you might be right that this is IPython's failure to mimic how the 
normal Python interpreter initializes sys.path.

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Jakub Wilk