[Python-3000] Move argv[0]? (Re: Unicode and OS strings) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 17 01:32:05 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

This sounds awfully close to bikeshedding.

I don't agree with that assessment. This is something I've had in mind for quite a while. Python optimises this for the least frequent use case, which is just plain silly, as far as I can see. The only reason for it is because that's the way C does it. That might be called a foolish consistency.

Change too many details like this and you cause death by a 1000 pinpricks for existing apps.

That's why I'm not suggesting that argv itself be changed, but that something new be added for the more frequent use cases.

-- Greg

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