From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: PYTHONPATH anomaly Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:17:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87vay8oyqu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4c416250-bab5-70fe-4244-a1d81e1d1b90@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhYyw-0001NM-6i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:17:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhYyr-0007e3-2Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2016 05:17:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4c416250-bab5-70fe-4244-a1d81e1d1b90@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sun, 4 Sep 2016 19:21:23 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: Guix-devel Hello! Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Questions: > > 1) Is it intended that the current dir is not part of sys.path? I don=E2=80=99t know about the specifics of Python here, but it=E2=80=99s a= lways a security problem to put =E2=80=9C.=E2=80=9D in a search path: users could e= nd up arbitrary code that just happens to be in $PWD. So it=E2=80=99s probably intended. Ludo=E2=80=99.