Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue26388
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 at 20:59 Mike Kaplinskiy <mike.kaplins...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> I hope this is the right list for this sort of thing (python-ideas seemed >> more far-fetched). >> >> For some context: there is currently a issue with pex that causes >> sys.modules lookups to stop working for __main__. In turns this makes >> unittest.run() & pkg_resources.resource_* fail. The root cause is that pex >> uses runpy.run_module with alter_sys=False. The fix should be to just pass >> alter_sys=True, but that changes sys.argv[0] and various existing pex files >> depend on that being the pex file. You can read more at >> https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex/pull/211 . >> >> Conservatively, I'd like to propose adding an argument to disable this >> behavior. The current behavior breaks a somewhat reasonable invariant that >> you can restart your program via `os.execv([sys.executable] + sys.argv)`. >> Moreover it might be user-friendly to add a `argv=sys.argv[1:]` argument to >> set & restore the full arguments to the module, where `argv=None` disables >> argv[0] switching. >> >> What do you think? >> > > This probably is best served as a feature request on bugs.python.org > since it's not asking for some massive change or new feature but just a > minor tweak to a module. >
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