Under my configuration (Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32) the sitecustomize.py is not found in the current directory. I added some testing code into site.def execsitecustomize() and found out, that the current path is not part of sys.path, but later on in the main program it is.

I don't think that allowing sitecustomize.py to be run from the current directory would be a good idea, as it gets executed automatically on any invocation of the Python program (and it could contain arbitrary code).

You can put sitecustomize.py inside Lib or Lib\site-packages and it will be picked fine.

It worked like this in all previous versions of Python. I think it is very useful e.g. if you work with development versions of other libraries. Better than adding import paths via sys.path += ['abc'] at the top of Python scripts. Or is there another or better way to add project specific import paths?

But at least there should be a notice in the documentation of Python 2.5 that this behaviour changed. I spend some time to find out that it was changed.

This is due to patch <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1232023&group_id=5470&atid=305470>
and is documented in the NEWS.txt file for 2.5:

- Patch #1232023: Stop including current directory in search
  path on Windows.

Closing as it's a documented change.