[Python-Dev] towards a stricter definition of sys.executable (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Mar 17 09:40:31 CET 2006

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

I don't think many people embed setup.py scripts, so alternative (e) would pro- bably cause the least problems:

e) sys.executable contains the full path to the program used to invoke this interpreter instance, or None if this could not be determined.

It seems that you indeed are trying to solve a problem you encountered. Can you please explain what the problem is?

ISTM that the current definition doesn't really cause problems, despite potentially being fuzzy. People that start sys.executable typically do get a Python interpreter - in an embedded interpreter, they just don't want to start a new interpreter, as that couldn't work, anyway.

Regards, Martin

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