Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

I understand what happens. Python 3.3+ uses getdents(), not stat() for module 
search. Therefore stat() is not called for non-existed files.

> It stands that while the -S and -E option allow to disable any customization 
> a user might have done (which is necessary for e.g. suid scripts), the 
> automatic insertion of '' into sys.path has no way of being undone.

Python used not only for suid scripts.

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