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author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2018-04-15 11:52:57 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-15 11:52:57 (GMT) |
commit | 82a948105920100ca2ec5c2340bc3890adcfe778 (patch) | |
tree | b6ed9b9402c0e83386082933015b706e58db40d7 /Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | |
parent | 480ab05d5fee2b8fa161f799af33086a4e68c7dd (diff) | |
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bpo-33185: Fix regression in pydoc CLI sys.path handling (GH-6419)
The pydoc CLI assumed -m pydoc would add the empty string
to sys.path, and hence got confused when it switched to
adding the full initial working directory instead.
This refactors the pydoc CLI path manipulation to be
more testable, and ensures it won't accidentally
remove the standard library directory containing
pydoc itself from sys.path.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 1f52488..81df398 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -1145,9 +1145,10 @@ Changes in Python behavior (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`32012` and :issue:`32023`.) * When using the ``-m`` switch, the starting directory is now added to sys.path, - rather than the current working directory. Any programs that are found to be - relying on the previous behaviour will need to be updated to manipulate - :data:`sys.path` appropriately. + rather than the current working directory. Any programs that are checking for + the empty string in :data:`sys.path`, or otherwise relying on the previous + behaviour, will need to be updated accordingly (e.g. by checking for + ``os.getcwd()`` in addition to checking for the empty string). Changes in the Python API |