New submission from Michael Smith <msm...@cbnco.com>: I've built Python 2.6.2 with a prefix of "" for an embedded system, so it's installed into /bin/python, /lib/python2.6/, etc.
If I run a script with "python /tmp/script.py" or by putting in a #!/bin/python and executing it directly, sys.path is missing the leading slashes: ['/tmp', 'lib/python26.zip', 'lib/python2.6/', 'lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', 'lib/python2.6/lib-tk', 'lib/python2.6/lib-old', 'lib/lib-dynload'] This causes all module imports to fail. I can work around this by making /usr a symlink to / and running the script as "/usr/bin/python /tmp/script.py", or by setting PYTHONHOME=/ before starting Python. In Modules/getpath.c, search_for_prefix() calls reduce() on argv0_path at the end of a do-while loop, so "/bin" becomes "" and the loop terminates. Then there's a call to joinpath(PREFIX, "lib/python2.6"), where PREFIX is "", and this fails (no leading slash). calculate_path() warns: Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> and falls back to joinpath(PREFIX, "lib/python2.6") again, which still fails. I was thinking I could work around it by building with prefix="/" instead of "", but the behaviour is the same - I don't know why, yet. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 98152 nosy: msm...@cbnco.com severity: normal status: open title: sys.path is incorrect when prefix is "" type: behavior versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7757> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
