Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > I have a fairly simple little python program to automate starting an
> > editor on a wiki page. It works fine on the system where I wrote it
> > (xubuntu 16.04, python 3 version 3.5.2) but it comes up with the
> > following error on a newer system (xubuntu 17.10, python 3 version
> > 3.6.3).
> >
> > Here is the error:-
> >
> > chris$ no
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/home/chris/bin/no", line 59, in <module>
> > os.execvp("vi", ("", monthFile,))
> > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 559, in execvp
> > _execvpe(file, args)
> > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 594, in _execvpe
> > exec_func(fullname, *argrest)
> > ValueError: execv() arg 2 first element cannot be empty
> >
> > Has execvp() become stricter in 3.6.3 or what?
>
> Yes; the relevant issue on the bug tracker seems to be
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue28732
>
OK, thanks all, I just need to put 'vi' in that empty parameter.
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