In the Stack Overflow thread, rosuav wrote: > Quick smoke-test: can you show the value of math.__file__ please? Editing > your question to add that would eliminate a particular class of issue (or > reveal the problem, perhaps).
(Replying here because SO requires 50 reputation to comment, and the requirement to have sufficient reputation to do anything on that site is the origin of the reason I don't have any reputation) If there were a math.py file in the path, there would have to be a sqrt function inside it, and then wouldn't the call stack reflect that? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list