6.1.2. The Module Search Path
When a module named spam is imported, the interpreter first searches
for a built-in module with that name. If not found, it then searches
for a file named spam.py in a list of directories given by the
variable sys.path. sys.path is initialized from these locations:
the directory containing the input script (or the current directory).
PYTHONPATH (a list of directory names, with the same syntax as the
shell variable PATH).
the installation-dependent default.
After initialization, Python programs can modify sys.path.