On May 15, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Iceberg wrote: > Mysteriously, using sys.path.insert(...) rather than > sys.path.append(...) does help. But I just don't understand. I used to > think that the build-in import statement always goes through all > folders inside sys.path, one by one, so in theory it does not matter > whether a path appears in sys.path earlier or later. (Unless two > different version of same name module exist in two different path, but > it is not the case this time.) //shrug Any explanation for that, > Jonathan?
No, that sounds mysterious to me as well. One possibility is that sys.path starts off with '', which I take to be the current directory. So using append makes it sensitive to the cwd. Either that or there's a collision that isn't obvious at first glance....
