Eggs in path before PYTHONPATH environment variable

Question

If I have packages installed from easy_install, the eggs are prepended to sys.path before the items in the PYTHONPATH variable.

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Answer 1

I have done something like the following to prepend to the system path when running a top-level python executable file:

import sys
sys.path = [""] + sys.path

Often, the "" for me involves use of the __file__ attribute to do relative look up for a path that includes the top-level module for my project. This is not recommended for use in producing, eggs, though I don't seem to mind the consequences. There may be another alternative to __file__.