In a windows debug build, an assertion is triggered when os.execvpe is called with an empty argument list: self.assertRaises(OSError, os.execvpe, 'no such app-', [], None) The same problem is present in the trunk version. Attached is a patch that fixes this, with a test.
Author: Alexander Belopolsky (Alexander.Belopolsky)
Date: 2010-03-21 18:32
This issue was misclassified as an interpreter crash while in fact it was a bug in the underlying OS utility. Please see discussion in . Since the fix changes behavior, it should be documented and a NEWS entry added.