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Author	j13r
Recipients	j13r
Date	2012年04月11日.14:42:48
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Message-id	<1334155369.29.0.554259242167.issue14547@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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If I have a script foo/bar.py import baz and create a symlink to it, called barhere.py ln -s foo/bar.py barhere.py when I run it, it behaves unexpectedly, specifically it behaves differently than if I had copied it here. It prefers to import baz from foo/baz, not from the current folder. Apparently Python (2.7.2-r3) handles symlinks differently than just looking at the content (everything is a file philosophy in UNIX).

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If I have a script 
foo/bar.py
 import baz
and create a symlink to it, called barhere.py
ln -s foo/bar.py barhere.py
when I run it, it behaves unexpectedly, specifically it behaves differently than if I had copied it here. It prefers to import baz from foo/baz, not from the current folder.
Apparently Python (2.7.2-r3) handles symlinks differently than just looking at the content (everything is a file philosophy in UNIX).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012年04月11日 14:42:49	j13r	set	recipients: + j13r
2012年04月11日 14:42:49	j13r	set	messageid: <1334155369.29.0.554259242167.issue14547@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012年04月11日 14:42:48	j13r	link	issue14547 messages
2012年04月11日 14:42:48	j13r	create

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