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Revision c474deaaf63deb633bf9bc951c8cc1cd5d107eda authored by Guido van Rossum on 25 April 1997, 15:38:31 UTC, committed by Guido van Rossum on 25 April 1997, 15:38:31 UTC 
Expand one level of symbolic link in sys.argv[0] before inserting its
 
dirname in sys.path.  This means that you can create a symbolic link
foo in /usr/local/bin pointing to /usr/yourname/src/foo/foo.py, and
then invoking foo will insert /usr/yourname/src/foo in sys.path, not
/usr/local/bin.  This makes it easier to have multifile programs
(before, the program would have to do an os.readlink(sys.argv[0])
itself and insert the resulting directory in sys.path -- Grail does
this).

Note that the expansion is only used for sys.path; sys.argv[0] is
still the original, unadorned filename (/usr/local/bin/foo in the
example).
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