Message 260483 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

For the purposes of pex (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex), it would be useful to allow calling run_module without sys.argv[0] changing. In general, this behavior is useful if the script intends to re-exec itself (so it needs to know the original arguments that it was started with).

To make run_module more useful in general, I propose adding a argv parameter that has the following semantics:

• (default) If set to a special value runpy.INHERIT (similar to subprocess.STDOUT), produces the current behavior of just changing sys.argv[0].
• If set to None, does not touch sys.argv at all.
• If set to an iterable, executes sys.argv = [module.__file__] + list(argv), and properly reverts it once the module is done executing.