[Python-Dev] Pondering some changes to python.c... (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
09 Apr 2002 08:51:33 +0200

Sean Reifschneider <jafo@tummy.com> writes:

>That's very hacky, IMO, and something I would not like to see >generally available. If you need that feature, embed Python.

Indeed. Setting it in python.c is relatively easy... That's what the patch I included did...

If you need that patch, just use it. But I would not like to see it in Python.

I'm sure it's not hard to find the memory block that argv resides at if you are a kernel module, but I suspect fewer changes are required by using the mechanism I proposed earlier. ;-)

Fewest changes to Python can be made if there are no changes at all. If people then still need the feature, they might use the extension module that finds the argv block. Still no need to change the way how main() works.

Regards, Martin