Frozen modules not present when running external scripts?

[purplepenguins]

I've been experimenting with frozen modules of late...Today I noticed something odd - the frozen modules are accessible just fine from the micropython cli, but if I try to run a script externally with the imports of my frozen modules specified like so "./micropython testscript.py", it says there is no module named my module. But if I just run ./micropython and import it there, it's present. What gives?

[pythoncoder]

The answer seems to lie in sys.path. At the REPL I get

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>>> sys.path
['', '/home/adminpete/.micropython/lib', '/usr/lib/micropython']

Frozen modules are imported from '', so they will work. But the following script

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import sys

def main():
    print(sys.path)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

run from Bash produces

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[adminpete@axolotl]: ~
$ micropython rats5.py
['/home/adminpete', '/home/adminpete/.micropython/lib', '/usr/lib/micropython']
[adminpete@axolotl]: ~
$ 

So I think your code needs to issue

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if sys.path[0] != '':
     sys.path.insert(0,'')

I'm not sure why this difference exists.