Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > The filesystem path (if any!) is derived from the name that the module > will be bound to within the code. That'w why the indirection of > ‘sys.path’ is necessary: it keeps the mapping between module names and > filesystem paths.
That phrasing gives the wrong impression; ‘sys.path’ doesn't store that mapping. I meant only that the indirection of ‘sys.path’ is necessary to allow Python to maintain that mapping at import time. -- \ “This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending | `\ the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the | _o__) hopes of its children.” —Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-04-16 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
