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  r76314 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-16 09:04:33 +1000 (Mon, 16 Nov 2009) | 9 lines

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    r76312 | nick.coghlan | 2009-11-16 08:36:47 +1000 (Mon, 16 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    Issue #7328: don't corrupt sys.path when running pydoc with the -m switch
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Lib/pydoc.py

@@ -2249,7 +2249,9 @@ def cli():
     import getopt
     class BadUsage(Exception): pass
 
-    # Scripts don't get the current directory in their path by default.
+    # Scripts don't get the current directory in their path by default
+    # unless they are run with the '-m' switch
+    if '' not in sys.path:
         scriptdir = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])
         if scriptdir in sys.path:
             sys.path.remove(scriptdir)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #7328: pydoc no longer corrupts sys.path when run with the '-m' switch
+
 - Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
   a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
   default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for