Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment: The pythonw executable always uses execv on OSX 10.4 because posix_spawnv isn't available there.
A possibly significant change is the value of argv[0] as passed to the Python.app executable. Could you check if this patch fixes the issue? Index: Mac/Tools/pythonw.c =================================================================== --- Mac/Tools/pythonw.c (revision 81605) +++ Mac/Tools/pythonw.c (working copy) @@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) { char* exec_path = get_python_path(); + argv[0] = exec_path; + #ifdef HAVE_SPAWN_H /* We're weak-linking to posix-spawnv to ensure that ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8868> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com