[Python-Dev] Python program name (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri May 4 14:33:47 CEST 2012

On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:29:14 +0100 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

On 4 May 2012, at 09:44, Vinay Sajip wrote: > IIUC, the program name of the Python executable is set to whatever argv[0] is. > Is there a reason for this, rather than using one of the various OS-specific > APIs [1] for getting the name of the running executable? The reason I ask is > that in a virtual environment (venv), the exe's path is the only thing you have > to go on, and if you don't have that, you can't find the pyvenv.cfg file and > hence the base Python from which the venv was created.

argv[0] is the script name, not the executable name - surely? The executable path is normally available in sys.executable.

I think Vinay is talking about C argv, not sys.argv.

Regards

Antoine.

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