On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:24 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:10 PM, dieter <die...@handshake.de> wrote: >> adrien oyono <adrienoy...@gmail.com> writes: >>> I have recently read the documentation about how imports work on python, >>> and I was wondering why, when you execute a python file, the current >>> directory is not added by default to the PYTHONPATH ? >> >> Maybe, to avoid surprises? >> >> You can invoke a script from different positions in your file system. >> If PYTHONPATH would automatically get ".", the script's behaviour >> could depend on the position from where it is called. > > IINM, this also has security implications.
It's curious then that the -m invocation does add the current directory, since it's normally used for running standard library scripts like timeit or venv. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
