How to remove current directory from python import path

Question

I want to work with the mercurial repository of hg itself. That is, I cloned Mercurial from https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg and want to run some hg

Answer 1

The way I would deal with the topic is by creating a /usr/local/bin/hg sh script with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/pythonVERSION/site-packages /usr/bin/hg

(Ubuntu-based distributives use dist-packages instead of site-packages)

PYTHONPATH is a special environment variable respected by Python interpreter to get extra module import paths.

Alternatively, you can export PYTHONPATH into your shell, but it will affect your whole experience.