Index: Misc/NEWS

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--- Misc/NEWS	(revision 79309)

+++ Misc/NEWS	(revision 79310)

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@

 Library

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+- Issue #8205: Remove the "Modules" directory from sys.path when Python is

+  running from the build directory (POSIX only).

+

 - Issue #7667: Fix doctest failures with non-ASCII paths.

 - Issue #7512: shutil.copystat() could raise an OSError when the filesystem

Index: Lib/site.py

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--- Lib/site.py	(revision 79309)

+++ Lib/site.py	(revision 79310)

@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@

     s = "build/lib.%s-%.3s" % (get_platform(), sys.version)

     if hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount'):

         s += '-pydebug'

-    s = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.path[-1]), s)

+    s = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.path.pop()), s)

     sys.path.append(s)