Message 57025 - Python tracker
Only in win32, in Linux it behaves ok (I put a /tmp/w.py that prints 'w'):
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
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>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append("/tmp/")
>>> import w
w
>>>