On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:29:14 +0100 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > > On 4 May 2012, at 09:44, Vinay Sajip wrote: > > > IIUC, the program name of the Python executable is set to whatever argv[0] > > is. > > Is there a reason for this, rather than using one of the various OS-specific > > APIs [1] for getting the name of the running executable? The reason I ask is > > that in a virtual environment (venv), the exe's path is the only thing you > > have > > to go on, and if you don't have that, you can't find the pyvenv.cfg file and > > hence the base Python from which the venv was created. > > > argv[0] is the *script* name, not the executable name - surely? > > The executable path is normally available in sys.executable.
I think Vinay is talking about C argv, not sys.argv. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
