[John J. Lee] > ... > I tried it, and I get the same results as before (the test modules from my > installed copy of Python are picked up instead of the local copies in > my CVS checkout's Lib/test, apparently entirely contrary to sys.path).
Try running Python with -vv (that's two letter "v", not one letter "w"). That will display a long-winded account of everything Python tries in order to satisfy an import. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list