[Python-Dev] Handling of sys.args (Re: User's complaints) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 11:31:11 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Nick Maclaren wrote:

On systems that are not Unix-derived (which, nowadays, are rare), there is commonly no such thing as a program name in the first place. It is possible to get into that state on some Unices - i.e. ones which have a form of exec that takes a file descriptor, inode number or whatever. I don't think that applies to the Python args[] though, since its args[0] isn't the path of the OS-level executable, it's the path of the main Python script. But you could still end up without one, if the main script comes from somewhere other than a file.

sys.argv[0] can end up being None in Python 2.5 - zipimporter objects don't currently expose the info runpy.run_module needs to set file and sys.argv[0] correctly, so they'll both end up being None if you use -m to run a module from a zipfile.

PEP 302 went a fairly long way towards decoupling imports from the filesystem lay out, but it isn't all the way there just yet.

Cheers, Nick.

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