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Expand Up @@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ Further restrictions may be imposed to prevent the user from injecting
malicious code.
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.BI "\-m " module-name
Searches
Adds the current directory to the start of
.I sys.path
for the named module and runs the corresponding
and runs the corresponding
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@dlax dlax Jul 29, 2021

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The fact that the current directory is added to sys.path is not specific to -m option, see https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.path. For instance, given the current directory:

.
└── pkg
    ├── __init__.py
    └── mod.py

any python command will find pkg.mod (e.g. pydoc pkg.mod).

As the current wording explicitly refers to sys.path, I believe this is sufficient.

.I .py
file as a script. This terminates the option list (following options
are passed as arguments to the module).
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